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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle December 1 2019 #51857
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    And so we have climate migrations again today. Record cold U.K., record cold (and no kidding, brother!) in Russia.

    “Automakers Offer Record Incentives As Trillion Dollar Auto Bubble Bursts (ZH)”

    Well, we had a record number of cars, then a crash. But instead of letting the number of cars and car manufacturers fall to a reasonable level (admittedly under capitalism, a little too low, below the trendline) we bailed them all out with taxpayer money – including Harley and Toyota – and told them to go on their way. Doing what? Um, making cars? They don’t make egg cream sodas. So immediately what? We have too many cars again, we flood the market again, and oversupply has layoff and a bankrupting slump in sales again, all because you couldn’t leave it alone, you had to “help.” Thanks a lot, instead of one section of GM going bankrupt, and those machine tools being re-directed to I dunno, renewable energy inventions*, you bankrupted the whole United States and Germany instead. #Winning!

    *This is literally what happened as the only reason Tesla is even in business is they bought Toyota’s manufacturing plant at a mega-multi-billion dollar discount.

    Part II: They are wildly in debt for buying cars, but why? Because of the bailouts, car manufacturers can be totally, completely, irresponsibly unconcerned with customer’s needs. Which is a far CHEAPER car. Then how can they all buy cars that are too expensive? Because of the bailouts, BANKS can be totally, completely, irresponsibly unconcerned with customer’s needs, and lend to people regardless of if they go bankrupt, since there’s no such thing, only ME, the taxpayer, paying for everything. So the price of the cars is too high, because they’d like higher profit margins (who wouldn’t) then demand infinite regulation on safety, etc, to prevent competition and be government-protected monopolies, then raise prices 3x what any customer could possibly pay (like health care) then use infinite debt to make that even remotely plausible, while every customer slowly goes bankrupt from using their service, the one they would never in million years buy if they had any choice.

    Capitalism!!! Oh wait, I meant the OPPOSITE of capitalism, where money doesn’t allocate or account anything and bankruptcy and failure aren’t possible.

    ….Aaaaand speaking of:

    “ The Fed’s Answer to the Ghastly Monster of its Creation (E
    P)”

    Stocks can only go up and not down. Housing can only go up but not down. Profits (markups) can only go up and not down. In #AntiLogos land, we’re making a world with all ups and no downs! And we did it for you! (Us, actually. You don’t own any stocks and can never afford a house) If you think we’re bad, you should see Australia!

    That’s okay, you can fight Mother Nature. It’s not like she wins in the end or anything.

    Where do you safely bury more than 28,000 cubic meters …of deadly radioactive waste for the next million years?”

    You pay Russia whatever you have to to take it as they have a conversion reactor that will break the waste down and use it. The technology German engineers couldn’t be bothered to build. The other stuff that’s filling the reporter’s dramatic volume is low-level waste that honestly isn’t that dangerous if left in a salt mine.

    Still, nice going. Science™! 200 years after Mary Shelley, still making the exact same mistake! Because we’re geniuses in the room and you should respect my authori-tie.

    We are now working for the dark side.”

    Ah, so good to know how we’re seen around the world. The respect and love Washington himself advised in his Farewell Address.

    “...our wars have killed 801,000 directly and resulted in a multiple of that number dead indirectly..”

    This is the basis of my regular statement that the U.S> has killed over 6 Million people, innocent civilians even. Because what is a “multiple” of 800,000? And although it’s impossible to truly know, take the baseline deaths in Iraq – just for one of the dozens of nations we attack every day – and trendline that forward as if we’d never been there. How many fewer people now, with lack of births, marriages, early deaths, etc? Oh yes, I’m sure we’ve outdone the 3rd Reich in deaths, suffering and misery, it just depends how far back you want to start the clock to get the numbers. Pinochet? CIA-funded drug trafficking? Hungary, 1956? You decide. The parties have decided, and they’re all for it! It’s the Green Plan to help the planet but good, just as suggested in all those environmental white papers.

    OPCW Manipulation of Douma Report Requires Fresh Look at Skripal Case (MoA)”

    Well at least somebody’s still looking at it. After a while you give up. Ultimately, it’s easier to say what it wasn’t, and it WAS NOT Novochok. And that means the U.K. and all the papers are bald-faced liars, which is all you need to know. And WHY they all NEEDED to lie, and lie even to this day is all you need to ask as a citizen. Unlike a court, I don’t need to solve the crime to prove you did it. Yes, very likely BZ. But since that’s just as good a story, why bother fabricating the preposterous, face-palming, self-owning, Novochok story? You could just say Putin likes drugs, and slander him. You were going to anyway and never tell the truth what’s the difference?

    And of course every time we find BZ, we replace the roof of the house. Standard procedure.

    Will The Epstein Story Ever be Fully Told? (Rice)”

    Obviously not. None of us could live long enough to even watch all the tapes. It would take the government decades just to interview all the witnesses. …But they could save time when interviewing themselves, Mr. FBI/Justice.

    So we’re probably doing what all corrupt nations do: using the evidence and cases as political blackmail to get things done. Does that make them better than Epstein? Only slightly, since the push is to stop such behavior overall. However, without publicity and punishment, where’s the warning to the next guy? How does democracy get to find out what’s been going on and how recent decisions were made?

    48/20 year rule. Actually pretty good ideas, which is why I’m sure no one will use them. It’s always better to #AntiLogos as your God and never forgive anyone, then act surprised when they come for you too.

    Newsweek Reporter Fired After Peddling Fake News That Trump Golfed On Thanksgiving”

    OMG! I actually saw consequences! For the consequence-free zone. For one person on one day! Just 329 million, 999 thousand to go!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 30 2019 #51842
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    Well at least they didn’t say he’d never left the state: he’s 12. And not wearing his Sunday best in the fields, obviously.

    “Banks in the European Union could close branches, merge or leave”

    “Close”? You told us not to close when you bailed us out! Make up your mind. I thought not closing, not leaving was the whole point? But now instead of ignoring capitalism you want to obey capitalism and do what it says? Is that because like all life on earth, it’s only allowed to exist under your control?

    Low profitability limits banks’ capacity to generate capital organically”

    That sentence above means literally nothing and is also false too. Naturally I’m being a rabble-rouser here, but these problems were caused by them. Low profitability? Wow, in 1968 the spread was “Lend at 8%, save at 5%, golf by 3,” and everyone drove Cadillacs. Today it’s “Lend at 30%, Save at 0%, and…we’re broke?” You got a 30% spread, Dukie. That’s 10x the long-term average. And you’re broke??? You sound like the health care companies. What have you been doing??? You’re fired! But it’s these exact ECB-blokes who caused the system to not work and make no sense whatsoever. Financial health? Dissolve yourself. It’ll be fixed in no time.

    traffic volumes at stores across the country on Thanksgiving eve were soft”

    With endless strip malls backed by deadly 4-lane traffic, shopping is ugly, difficult, and not fun. Not filling like when you’d see careful shop windows and other shoppers dressed up and cheerful. There is a point where more is not better, Mr. Creosote. However, the single largest waste in the history of the planet is not going back to cornfields. It will be toxic, inarable gravel for 1,000 years. And again, they’re using this to hide that far larger retail is sinking faster than far-smaller online.

    “introduce a resolution for censure”

    Wow. Doing literally nothing is going to go over just PEACHY in moderate-land. You can tell because two DNC Congressmen have already flipped and left the party, and the Town Hall meetings are spicy! “We sent you there to help us! And you did NOTHING!!!” Their answer: “We thought it was a 1776 moment!” “On what evidence??? Less people believe it now than before you started!”

    This is what happens when you’re radically #AntiLogos and don’t keep accurate views. In other words, Don’t Trump Derangement Syndrome. Keep your head and you’ll keep your head.

    If Assange gets extradited to the United States and if he gets punished for exposing the truth,”

    These are two relatively big “Ifs”. Don’t surrender.

    Jeffrey Epstein Is Dead But His Legal Legacy May Have Years To Run (G.)”

    So a lot of the structure, and all the other competing sex-lines are still out there, but our focus is on Andrew? Yeah, I’m way more worried about Andrew having to stay home on his palatial estate more than how many more people are out there like Nexium and picking up teens from Minnesota. …Which is to say, THEY STILL DON’T CARE. It doesn’t even occur to them to care. The only real people are celebrities and coastal elites, where everyone else on the planet is Untermensch. So…Epstein had like a million clients, and we have the tapes, sooooo…anybody planning on prosecuting any crimes? A: No. Shut up peasant, we’ll be around for your daughter soon. Just like our pals over in China. It’s only bad when THEY do it.

    On Corbyn’s reaction to Paris, props to the British PEOPLE, who stopped such an attack with nothing but a fire extinguisher and a narwhale horn. Remember kids: “When seconds count, the police are just minutes away!” And that’s why self-defense is enshrined in Britain’s Rights of Man. You know, the one that includes gun ownership and has been completely ignored for 200 years. All’s well when the people rise to their duty.

    in reply to: The Fed Detests Free Markets #51841
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    This is highlighting the difference I often bring up about Capitalism. Free markets are when I can carve a fishhook from bone and if my cousin wants it, he has to trade me something. That is, it’s organic. It’s innate to man, and as world-wide black markets show, is inextinguishable. That you should enjoy the fruits of your hard work is natural and opposed to the inorganic, rigged system we see today.

    However, the tilt toward corruption is *also* natural and organic, which makes it difficult to discuss clearly. Like other systems — the price system we’re talking about here — the level of corruption is always >+1, but should cycle around a centerpoint, the way market cycles around a trendline. What these guys do — or rather I should say, what WE do, when we abdicate all our duty and give up our morality for authority — is to allow that corruption to get far, far wider. And since it hovers near zero-bound, the only direction it can expand is up. Is that, too, natural? Well probably, as they’ve been struggling with it as far back as we have records, King Canute, Nebuchadnezzar, whatever. But that’s us, our cycles of indifference, selfishness, and immorality where we THINK we’re going to get that extra $1,000 by playing loose, but really when we accept policies and Presidents that play loose, we lose ten-fold that, and worse still.

    This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; …And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, …And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you

    This is what they — we — did to sign up to the system and “I’ll get mine!” and jump in line to receive the first fruits of the inflation, of the money flow, and screw the other guy, my co-worker, someone in Milwaukee. That is to be slaves and lose so, so much more. That part appears to be natural too, and it’s only our new system — and unprecedented lack of morality — that has allowed it to reach so far. And that makes the snap-back that much worse. For as the other quote says, the people will be punished with their whole country. When it comes, justice is broad, not fine. But nearly everyone nationwide, worldwide approves of this corruption, of all sorts, not just market interventions. No one has the least desire to be judged on their own merits, without inside help. You wanted dishonesty. Well God is a gentleman and gave you what you asked. Are you happy now or have you learned something?

    No one’s learned anything yet. Instead of their own work and merits, they plan on “sharing” themselves some of that other guy’s money, his hard work. …And the sad part is, when that guy stole it, then the fruits of that theft favor others for 100 years, how on earth do you settle matters and not fall into all-stealing-all?

    Maybe we can’t escape ourselves. If we’re corrupt how can we possibly hope to escape the results of our own corruption? That’s like dousing ourselves with water and expecting not to get wet.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 29 2019 #51804
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    …You see, since the Technocrats in the ’30s, they were going to replace the failing debt-compounded currencies, with a NEW, made-up, infinitely-hypothocated Carbon Credit. If they can’t get that replacement, they die. And considering the present currency is the “Petrodollar”, backed by oil, it’s not that far a jump. The Technocrats — you know the ones who wanted your vouchers, or currency to vanish every 30 days, keeping the people in perpetual darkness and poverty — they called it a “BTU-credit.” Yes, synonymous with Carbon-Credit. They’re the “Old World Order”, not otherwise, and their goal is to re-establish feudalism, as we saw when the USSR was run by the same fools, to the ruin of nearly all, and unparalleled environmental destruction

    That’s how she’s going to, HAS to, link her bank and failing Europe to the environment and AGW. As a new profit and control center.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 29 2019 #51803
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    “Negro woman who has never been out of Mississippi “

    Why would it be odd for a farmer to never leave the state? Especially in the Depression? Is Lange also one of the jet-setting Harvard elites that she expects all America takes a two-week holiday on the Jersey Shore? Even the middle class can’t afford this, even today. (Of course by definition, that would make you ‘not middle class’ but government lawyers set the definitions. and because, paid adults, they lie.)

    “Thanksgiving Is Canceled for Climate Change.”

    “Driving is less detrimental, but American cars emit close to a pound of CO2 per mile driven.”

    Wow people. Use your heads. Cars get 25mpg. That’s 1/25 gal/mile. A gallon is 8 pounds. I think you’re already with me here that 1/25th of 8 pounds is a lot, LOT less than a pound. (It’s a third of one pound.) And I doubt a fraction of THAT is CO2 as others waste products are emitted.

    Why do they lie? Then add lies to the lies? Then exaggerate the lies? Then cover the lies with the – apparently totally fake, fabricated, discredited – appeal to authority of science? Instead they just discredit science, then attack anyone with the common sense of a moo-cow, or a 6th grader.

    Why? They told us themselves throughout the 80s: no one was listening, they needed a crisis to MAKE people save the planet, even if they had to make one up. …So they did, as the Club of Rome published, and you can read for yourself. …Didn’t save the rhinos though. Maybe they should have tried honesty; we’re fighting the wrong enemy.

    What else can we learn? ““Meat and meat byproducts (cheese, butter and heavy cream, for example) have a larger environmental footprint than plant-based ingredients,” complains Alexandra Emanuelli.”

    Well yes. They are also 10x more nutritious too. So if they were 10x more energy intensive, they would only be equal to cabbage. Also – and they love this lie most of all – just because we DO ship pigs to China and back to be processed, doesn’t mean we HAVE to. A chicken in my yard has ZERO carbon, less than their salad. They just assume every calorie has the worst profile they can find, and every kale salad has the BEST profile they can find. (It doesn’t. It comes from California or New Zealand, where it’s irrigated with gasoline pumps, pulling water from rivers and aquifers) But, that’s Science for ya. And they wonder why people are starting to not believe them. They’ve been lying like this for 50 years, they’re far TOO loving and conciliatory to lying liars and their transparent lies, what took them so long to call bulls–t on this garbage?

    …and then LaGuarde is going to use the bank to stop climate change. Um, Chris? Where did you get that mandate? Because if you can just make it up, I’d make one that gives free ice cream to all children under 12. Okay, as the fire is directed at her, HOW would you plan to do that? Cut off banking to everyone you don’t like, as they do on Twitter and Facebook? Give free money to environmental projects that aren’t at all economically viable? …But they’re already do those things. How, exactly?

    But why stop there? If you can decide THIS is your mandate, for the good of humanity, why not take on social justice, racism, naughty speech and anything else on earth you dislike a little, like broccoli?

    This is what it’s like living in a world without rules, boundaries, or order, where your God is #AntiLogos.

    “Millennials Have a Right To Be Pissed at Boomers. This Data Proves It.

    New old front in trying to cause a civil war. If they don’t deserve it, you just kill your parents and inherit it! It was yours anyway, right?

    P.S. why did you get $100,000 in debt taking underwater basketweaving? Oh, you believed these jokers? Why? No kids had ever believed their parents before. Over 30 much? Lost Generation? Honestly though, this is a tough onion to unwrap, I’m just saying that hate and taking other people’s stuff is never a great start to right a wrong.

    ““typical law enforcement activities,”

    Yes, we know that using the secret state to spy on opposition candidates is “typical”. That’s the problem. $1M to ask a 3rd unknown hireling one question. Do go on. Explain to me how all that works and is legitimate. He works for the Clinton Fund. So that, MY, money wasn’t just sent from me, through him, to Clinton or the opposition party? Can you see why you don’t want to get started here?

    Six out of 10 Greeks have delayed paying at least one utility bill over the last 12 months..”

    Probably pretty similar in America. Might have the option of kiting credit cards to hide it though.

    G-d only knows why anyone would want to watch this sort of thing, but now the royal family is forever linked to pedophilia.”

    I wouldn’t sweat it. They did the Seville thing only 3-4 years ago and no one blinked. A few other kids came out about other PMs and officials at the time. Nothing changed. No one cared. No hospital, accomplice, or the BBC was charged. Because this is the sort of thing they WANT. …Want to cover their own blackmail, at least. I mean if you can’t cover your bad habits and not be arrested, what’s even the point of being in government, media, jet-set?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Thanksgiving 2019 #51785
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    *Should be near 100% graduation FAILURE rates. In Baltimore, but many other cities too. It’s the TEACHERS cheating for the tests, not the students: stellar example. Know what we need, now that we have 100% taxes and 0% success? More money.

    “In 2017, not one student scored proficient in state testing. Its four-year graduation rate is 5 percent.”
    https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/students-miss-100-days-of-school-fail-classes-still-walk-at-graduation

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Thanksgiving 2019 #51784
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    “Is Censure The Democrat Escape Clause? (Noble)”

    Trial balloon! They’re going to take his Pinata away too. No, don’t. Stop. Doing literally nothing at all is much too harsh.

    “A lone voice in the wilderness: “..you can’t win support from people that you treat “like garbage.”

    That’s ridiculous, because “diversity”, everybody who doesn’t think exactly like us is garbage. We’ve already outlined plans to round them up and imprison them at a minimum, you know, like that guy with the funny mustache that wrote that book? All our problems are from them, and the homeland will be a paradise if only we can remove them.

    Also she’s pointing out that you work with your AGREEMENTS, not disagreements, and how refusing to hear the other side isn’t a help, although she won’t say what I will, people who want to block knowledge from you are a Cult. THEY are the religious fundamentalists.

    “ China Threatens Retaliation After Trump Signs Hong Kong Democracy Bill (ZH)”

    Well that should make things interesting, they’re stretched pretty tight. They tried it back at the end of Obama, but too ham-fisted, demanding they change their currency and blow themselves up for us, but they’re a diverse nation, and strong, not going to be so easy. So it takes more fronts, and more pressure to attempt to break them again. (Should I ask ‘Why oh why?’)

    “Baker regularly lunched with Washington Post Reporter David Ignatius.”

    They better have more than this.

    “Obama has spent his post-presidency cozying up to the global elite and delivering vapid speeches to corporate interests in exchange for unthinkable sums of money.”

    Did Jacobin miss all 8 years of his Presidency or something? That’s all he ever did. That’s why the party broke, Sanders exists, and Obama is now officially a ‘Republican.” (I forget which news source) No joke. …Also bought his multi-million estate at sea level on Martha’s Vinyard, great optics for his Green Policy.

    “Reuters sampled more Democrats than Republicans and independents combined”

    As per yesterday, “They’re Lying. Say it to yourself until you believe it.” This is for polls that show Biden in front, Tulsi at 6%, etc., but also for a guy who fills 20k stadiums every day is unpopular, below 40%. Not true. May not be 60%, mind you, but I think we just proved all their polls are false. …And everything they say is a lie. Why, children? Because that is their God, whom they will happily die for.

    US Wants NHS On Table For Post-Brexit Trade Deal – Labour Dossier (Ind.)”

    Yuck, and pretty typically, but “climate change should not even be mentioned in the deal.” Why would it be?

    “It was 0.000007 cent for every election dollar that was spend during that time.”

    Ah, but when reason is dead, this math makes sense. Besides: math.

    “Brick & Mortar Rent Meltdown, Manhattan Style (WS)”

    As per yesterday, their rents drop 50%, but the owner’s NY-high taxes do not. Costs cannot be cut, but not entirely thanks to normal retail cycles, but because of government. Put it this way: originally, let’s say there was no property and no people taxes: taxes were tariffs on goods like whiskey and imports. Scalable, predictable, avoidable. Later, it became property taxes, by which all property MUST produce or be stolen by the King, and income, other overhead taxes existed, including, say minimum wage, etc, flat overhead costs on people. But it was 3%. Capitalism can still adjust. Now it’s 30%, where regardless of output, each worker costs $50k/yr, standing costs are 10% to own a roof to work in, company taxes are 10%, and not just for you, but also for the costs of everything you buy from fellow wholesalers. Costs compound until government, compliance, regulation, are 50% of your costs, not avoidable, and not scalable. So unless you have the next iPhone, you can’t even open the doors. And they don’t, so unemployment, which basically didn’t exist until 1913, is now U6 near 20% and has been for 20 years, and U6 since the 70s has probably been 10%, higher than any time in human history. To offset that, we now need to FUND all that unemployment misery, pay people for NOT working, and give them free houses and healthcare that job we destroyed would have given them. …But also destroy their self-worth, their independence, and shove them down into a Kafkaesque reality so bent and depressing as impossible to describe to anyone who hasn’t tried it. So now we have free money, free houses, free health care, we’re at the point of patching over the spiraling suicide rates, which are combined with astronomical opioid deaths and rising binge drinking, plummeting marriage, children, and happiness rates.

    Congratulations: you’ve struck gold! And all because you raised taxes from 1%, 5%, to 50%, by “Helping.” Everything is worse than if you’d lived in a log cabin in Upper New Amsterdam. But keep it up! 40% of New Jersey wants to leave to go to low-tax areas, and Chicago and Baltimore have already been more destroyed than Chernobyl, more complete than if we’d had a nuclear exchange in the 80’s. But they’re not done! They’re raising MORE taxes on houses and cola on the poor, with near 100% school graduation rates. MOAR!

    “Europe currently cannot defend itself on its own,”

    Defend itself from what? Macron is the one shooting everybody.

    Speaking of, and in honor of Thanksgiving: Europe sure don’t like food. Farmers are protesting in Paris today against being vilified and shut down by government. That follows Germany and Netherlands recently. See: NO animals. That’s mean. And we’re going to cut pesticides, that’s good. …But we ALSO want food to remain at 1,000-year lows, and be as easy to get as water. Farmers are being destroyed, run off the land so we can pave it for housing in France or Wisconsin, required by (tax) law. So we can have LESS food, LESS arable land.

    Well, I fear you will certainly get your wish. When food rises 6x minimum, you can sit in the house where that food once was, cold, and stare at your iPhone6, broken, and think about how you might eat today if only you hadn’t protested AGAINST food in a misdirected desire to save the planet, back when. You wanted all the humans to die to save the rhino, now you’re one of them, and the starving people ate the rhinos anyway. Try to be practical.

    Since we got a weather break up to now, lucky for you the combines got a few more days in, the grain elevators are slowly moving from “very bad” to “poor,” but we’ll see if the late planting, poor quality, low yields bite. They call the farm problem from the trade war, and not knowing enough details to contradict them, I suspect it’s essentially false. Trade War is not great but hardly relevant for a U.S. flooded out, price controlled, farms and elevators ruined, crops put in too late, most failing, then harvested before enough ripening. China’s not involved in that. And they DID set aside all the farm aid, but in a corrupt, obstructing nation, that bucket has so many holes it’s not reaching the farmers, or not unless they’re ADM or a Chinese conglomerate who can do the paperwork with 20 lawyers. Thanks government! But nobody cares til they’re hungry, then it’s like, “Who did this?” You did, sir. You did. Stop “helping”, before we all die of it.

    in reply to: Jeremy Corbyn Hates All Jews #51782
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    Good point because…WHO are these antisemites he’s not rooting out? Do they have their names? (Probably) Has anyone looked to see that THOSE accusations aren’t identical made-up slander and hearsay. …Not like people accuse and loosely trash-talk each other in politics or anything.

    It is interesting that, ultimately, the politics of Israel overwhelm, are more important than the folk sleeping rough in Blackpool. Who is that country again, that they can set the elections of so many nations worldwide, have so many wars fought in their neighborhood, on their behalf? Britain’s Rabbi decides the elections now? Is this a theocracy or something? And I would say the same here about the Evangelicals.

    “things become reality by the grace of being endlessly repeated”

    This is the origin of our phrase, “The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.” If you don’t want to do your duty, the hard work of governing yourself, then submit to a king and see how that works out for you. There’s an Israeli story about it, somebody named “Saul” who then ran roughshod over the law until there was a rebellion, then the NEXT king was so terrible there was a inter-family civil war, then ultimately swapping Judges for Kings led to the complete annihilation of the nation, yada yada, so long ago, whatever I’m bored.

    “The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.” That means do your job. Reporters. AND citizens. I’m far more worried about their selfish immorality than their antisemitism. Immorality points everywhere, while antisemitism is only one tiny slice of life. Which do we care about in #OppositeLand? That’s right.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 27 2019 #51762
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    Except that’s not the reason: reporters like Tim Pool and others can raise millions without too much trouble. Clearly there’s a market for actual news, and Fox, for instance, makes money by leaning Right; Right-leaning YouTube is exploding in popularity: there’s mega-money there too. So all these journalists, these supposed grifters-for-hire refuse to click what WOULD make them money while HuffPo closes and their industry literally dies? No, they are political agitators and religous zealots, as has been said for almost 200 years now, Socialism, but also it’s brothers Humanism, Atheism, Secular-Materialism, are essentially a replacement religion, for humans must have a god. God as the State. But no one wants you hear your personal religious evangelizing in a news article. Give us the facts.

    As for this mythical “Journalism”, I turn you to the Pulitzer Prize, where Mr. Pulitzer said of lying to trick the U.S. into an unjust war of empire and aggression “Give me the photos and I’ll give you the war.” “Remember the Maine!” (Plymouth Rock, and the Golden Rule!) He delivered.

    In a college journalism lecture from the 80’s, a professor ALREADY lamented that he’d been driven out by the “What’s right is to print the news that gets the POLITICAL results I want” crowd, and such lying was already enshrined as good journalism in the textbooks years before 1990 and CNN. That and that the AP wire in the late 80s had no standards, anybody with a buck could tap in, PR firms, The Pentagon, and post any news article they wanted as literal, published “fact.” That wasn’t the bad part. The bad part was the stories were below 6th-grade level and you couldn’t tell, without calling the source and asking all over again (which they did back then), “What the heck happened? In paragraph 4, who did what to whom? Do you mean he died or his car died? By ‘Him’ do you mean person A or person B?” and so on. Mostly they didn’t call, or you assumed incorrectly with the best intentions. Oh, and there was already a lack or failing of whiskey-swilling hard-boiled copy editors that would smack you silly if you tried to print that garbage.

    That was 30 years ago, and I THINK perhaps things have gotten less accurate since then. So there was no “Golden Age.” It was the golden age of us starting illegal wars because everyone incorrectly thought having no morals but to get your way was the Highest Good™, that the other guy was doing his job, and so believed the most astounding nonsense, even after reading the Church Report among many other scandals, like when Dateline? 60 Minutes? put explosives into that car to make sure the gas tanks blew up? When CNN was caught on the Green Screen in Iraq I? When Rockefeller went before a room of NY journalists and said, “I’d like to thank you for covering for us, we couldn’t’ve done it without you”? Nope, no clues were had.

    It was never true. So look out for all the embedded knowledge you’ve inherited before 2010, every New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, the textbooks you read since 1964, all total bulls–t. Yet that is how the structure of our mind were created to integrate the information we are receiving today. No wonder we’re going insane. The answer is super-simple: They’re LYING to you. Say it again until you finally believe it.

    “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” — CIA Director Casey, 1981

    There is a class war. As Warren Buffet said: they won, because “none but ourselves can free our minds.” Redemption. Redemption Song.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 27 2019 #51755
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Oh noes! The Russians are trying to make us happy:

    That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It

    That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It

    How dare they make us happy and uplifting? That’s plumb un-American!

    Russia

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 27 2019 #51754
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Plan: I’m starting a new business with no taxes, no labor costs, and a multi-million dollar AA credit line. If it goes badly, I have no risk and don’t lose anything. Think I can compete vs. Joe Publix?

    Already hearing Bloomberg’s ads. He says he’s going to raise taxes on himself and all his friends and he’s a sharp businessman because he sells news coverage favors to fellow insiders and has run a protected monopoly for 40 years. Sounds legit. Do I exaggerate? Although he already has a policy Bloomberg Co. cannot investigate and expose fellow news organizations – on par with industry collusion and anti-trust violation – his first act as a candidate was to outlaw all investigations into himself. …But I’m sure he’s super-clean and did that ahead of time as his first official act for no reason whatsoever.

    Here’s an idea: should Pelosi even call for a mock impeachment vote at this point, every single House Republican should vote FOR it. …Then they can have a real, legal trial in the Senate and get some of this on record, under oath, and finally settled. Since they started and wanted this, it would be hilarious. What would they say? No, DON’T impeach him? We don’t WANT a trial to remove him?

    …Sooooooo, no vote will be allowed then? (A: no. Another fail. It may also end their obstruction into legitimate investigations of all of them.)

    “The One Terrific Impeachment Defense The White House Is Not Making (DW)”

    He’s not making this argument because it would undermine his case when he brings Biden and Co. up on Quid pro Quo bribery charges concerning the worldwide video of him firing the special prosecutor. Committing a felony is not protected speech by the way. You can’t attempt to bribe, incite to riot, or say, issue orders for a murder and claim innocent free speech. This is very, very old law.

    “Is Macron Right? Is NATO, 70, Brain Dead? (Buchanan)”

    Beyond that I would never agree with Macron, NATO is not brain dead at all. It’s doing exactly what it’s designed to do: cut apart and conquer Russia, and following by pieces, the world. And put it under whose control? And when that clear, everyday, desire is accomplished, would we not have a world unified under NATO, the West, and a few billionaires with access to the control levers? Is that not a one-world government, with a one-world taxing and surveillance structure, as written of in their papers? And since they are doing these attacks with vicious efficiency, both economically and militarily, do we not have a government that is in the middle of a world war trying to take over the planet, say, in Hong Kong, and that government, that system, that army, is us? NATO is in 28 nations and their live-fire military invasions span half the planet. We’ve helped kill 30,000 civilians in just the last few years. What other conclusion could you come to? It’s doing what it’s supposed to, what they’ve written about for 100 years, if only you’d read their biographies and hundreds of PAC filings. And from how the billionaire lever-pullers treat their own people in Paris or Flint, you know what their plans are once they succeed: total destruction and complete peasantry and penury for their own people.

    But hey, let’s fund them while the kids of Flint drink out of a pond.

    “Questions Cloud Story Behind Browder, Magnitsky (Spiegel)”

    That was decades ago, what brings this up? Somebody up to something?

    “Narrative Managers Faceplant in Hilarious OPCW Scandal Spin Job (CJ)”

    Don’t worry: Phillip Cross will have edited Wikipedia 500x a day over the holiday break to make sure the official OPCW reality is ‘just right.’ Bellingcat, living in his basement in Scotland, is an “on the ground expert” in the whole thing, and his tweets set national policy by which we missile-strike empty airbases 100x. Cue the circus music.

    “A Tale of Prince Andrew and Julian Assange (George Galloway)”

    I guess we should have seen this coming, when Britain’s greatest known pedophile (and that’s saying something!) Jimmy Seville, was a great guest of the palace and best friends with the royals. To bring it up to today, he was to be the Godfather of William and Harry and be nice and close to them, every day. After his 50-year reign of terror on British children was exposed, well, THEN … the Royal family did nothing. Didn’t even apologize or distance themselves from it. And why would they? Andrew was right there, just like Sir Edward Heath, and well-rumored Prince Phillip before him. It’s a tradition, a national institution, even. Droight de Signeur, only over the whole nation, any time, place, gender, or age, much worse than just wedding nights. …But not to pick on the Royals, since the person at the center of only-this-latest-scandal-and-outing was by citizenship an American with endless American customers that include most of our mayors, governors, and Presidents. People’s reaction? Yawn. “What else is new?” Well, since my daughter is already selling herself on “SugarDaddies.com” to pay for college, what’s the harm? What’s really right or wrong?” As the (non)Pope would say, “Who am I to say?” There’s no right or wrong, and no heaven or hell, it’s just a thing humans make up, so Party On, Andy!

    But don’t worry, Andrew of Jeffie will take a fancy to you in the men’s bathroom at the Carleton-Ritz, and then You’re Next. You didn’t mind when it was someone else, why cry now?

    As with Assange. You didn’t care when it was him in prison, so who do you think will cry when it’s you they pick up and hold indefinitely on faketotal lack of current charges?

    Ah but we space-age people are so much more morally advanced and progressive than our medieval ancestors. We do rape, slavery, murder, with 21st century efficiency. Ah for the old days when they had to actually send down one of only a few knights on horseback that would take 6 weeks before he’d bully, imprison you, and rape your daughter for no good reason. Now like Dominoes, they can do it in 30 minutes or less. True progress.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 26 2019 #51726
    Dr. D
    Participant

    So…Socialism. WHY did the previous store close? In our whole area, state, perhaps most of the country, it’s high property and other taxes, which are ESPECIALLY punitive to businesses. …But they give the discount on taxes to Wal-Mart, taken FROM the businesses on Main Street who’ve sat in on every council meeting since they were 20 and been struggling for 30 years. You know, cause anybody except our town is better™! So, like Churches, who are also doing okay, and halfway houses, and state agencies, and state-protected monopolies, which are every remaining business in these areas, This grocery pays no property tax. That’s probably a 10% gain, which is twice a grocery’s profit margin.

    Okay, next problem: Socialism always works great! …But only at first. No shame to it, that’s why it’s so tempting. After a while, the store is established, is not competing, the people have no means to complain or shut it down, and it very slowly gets run worse until it’s a DRAIN on the town, but no one will shut it down, because we’ve always had it and admitting it needs a shake-up is embarrassing to somebody’s smarty-pants brother-in-law who’s now running it at $75k salary plus full pension benefits due to 3% compounded raises over the years. When they get to this point, maybe 20 years from now, they’ll either sink the whole town — which, P.S. is EXACTLY HOW THEY GOT INTO THIS MESS, WITH TOO-HIGH BUSINESS/PROPERTY TAXES — or, like Britain, then “privatize” their failure, handing some rich guy this pig but at far, far under the market price, giving him the people’s assets for free.

    Oh and 10 miles? What are you kidding me? People in the U.S., out west, have DRIVEWAYS that are 5 miles long. And the totally-paved, fully-ditched, entirely-subsidized, DOT-approved, roads are just too hard and rough for them? That’s 10 minutes to the store. 20 to the city. You’re in the ‘burbs, man! Admit it. Every state not on the coast has a 10 minute drive MINIMUM to the store. But hey, it’s their right as the local government to do so if they wish, and it’s not impossible for it to go well, just pretty unlikely. Just saying would have been a lot easier to NOT screw the previous IGA owner to death and scare the prospective buyers silly with the terrible business environment your town provides. Then we wouldn’t have great stories about how Capitalism, which was run out of business by government, is bad, and Socialism, which destroyed all those previously-existing businesses and livelihoods, towns and counties, is good.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 26 2019 #51723
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Quote of the day: “The great mistake foreign observers make observing the latest farce in Washington is assuming that there must be some order, rationality and linear logic behind it. There is none. It is Politics According to the Marx Brothers” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-wonderland-his-head

    Nah, Ron has been saying this since the day he got in office, in 1976. Just no one gives a s–t.

    “The Real Bombshell of the Impeachment Hearings (Ron Paul)”

    Vindman say: “Why bother to vote, brother? We got your back! Go back to sleep and let us handle it, nothing you say matters to us anyway.”

    Thanks! I knew we set up that Republic for a reason. So all us citizens and watchmen could not lift a finger and sleep in peace.

    “CBS 60-Minutes joined the gaslighting rotation Sunday night with a reality-optional Russia Hacked Our Election story.”

    Still shopping for that Civil War and not doing too bad: by ordering and shaming their followers to never, ever read anything not written by us, The Cult™, we have two (at least one) air-tight echo chambers, so literally the news reports “Sondman CONFIRMS Trump”, and “Sondman REFUTES Trump.” No one is sued, no one goes to jail. But we do have the option of your neighborhood breaking into open violence, and everyone you know getting killed, and every building you’ve ever entered being burned to the ground. In a reality-optional world, that too is a fantasy, and the side without and guns or training is going to vanquish a side with almost all the guns and training. ‘Cause, reasons. Side of the Angels or something-something. Blah blah I’m bored already.

    Speaking of, everytime the Right comes up with a meme, the Left mirrors it. Thus, the “Looking Glass World” “CNN: Trump Is Leader Of ‘Destructive Cult’ , Uses ‘Mind-Control’ (SN)” He ain’t the only one. What cult is it that finds out their leaders were universally picking up and raping their daughters from Minnesota to Florida, then says, “Meh. That’s our leaders!”

    Spiegel Finds Browder’s Magnitsky Narrative Is Riddled with Lies (RT)”

    Martin Armstrong was pretty close to these guys and he refutes the whole thing. It’s not hard: just be literate and read the records. Like most things. But as Solomon, people read the photocopies of his documents and say, “No it isn’t.”

    “Uber Loses License to Operate in London (BBC)”

    Uber has never turned a profit, and in an industry as profit-thin as pizza parlors, there’s no reason to think they ever will. So who’s funding them for multi-billions and why?

    “When will Andrew be arrested?”

    A: Never. They are going to take away the piñata at his birthday party. Ow! Too much!

    Americans in 3rd world conditions. https://www.theorganicprepper.com/power-water-americans-third-world/
    But it’s only 90% of all counties, the red ones. But don’t worry, Berkeley says: they’re “bad people” who deserve “uncomfortable” lives. 30,000 deaths a year is just a start for our final solution against them! However, we sure have $100 Billions for foreign aid, war, and bank bailouts! The banks can take $130B a night if they want! We’re up to about $350B long-term bail already.

    A story after your own heart: Darn, This Is Inconvenient: Apple Is Destroying the Planet to Maximize Profits
    http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2019/11/darn-this-is-inconvenient-apple-is.html
    Apple

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 26 2019 #51714
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Armstrong on Thailand:

    Q: I have dual passports. Should I leave Australia?

    “ANSWER: The UK will most likely adopt a worldwide income tax. As an Australian resident, you are taxed on your worldwide income. This means you must declare all income you receive from foreign sources in your income tax return. You might want to look at moving to Thailand. They are outside of the CRS and a very reasonable country, if not the most reasonable in SE Asia. It is hard to say what will unfold there going forward. However, the only thing that is certain is that the West is in the decline & fall mode. The financial power will shift to Asia post-2032.

    We have to understand that all the promises of socialism are crumbling to the ground. The governments will become much more aggressive to enforce taxation in a desperate attempt to retain power. That will fail. The only thing this is causing is rising separatist movements and inevitable violence.”

    Thought you might appreciate the Hermitage.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 25 2019 #51693
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Public housing: Once desired, now a decades-long decline”
    CT
    https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Public-housing-Once-desired-now-a-decades-long-13651853.php#photo-16998593

    “China Needs to Prepare for Zero Interest Rates (Global Times)”

    Everything’s great and normal, but everybody needs negative interest rates. Okay, again: There was a group in the 30’s called the “Technocrats”, they use the name still even today. That group wanted to scientize the whole economy and centrally plan it, as was logical and popular back then, before every human on planet earth saw how genocidal central governments and central planning are. Their plan was to measure every watt of power (Smart Grid) measure every widget (just-in-time internet) measure every sale (Amazon, WalMart), measure and control every resource (monopoly of insider banks), and for this example, to pay the workers in company store vouchers that would expire in 30 days. That way, no one could “save money,” get power, then make a mildly-inconvenient call on food or factory goods that would annoy their perfectly-balanced system created by obsessive-compulsive control freaks. THIS IS WHAT NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES ARE. Especially with Yang’s Soviet UBI. Now there are other effects, but that is clearly one of them.

    No savings. No wealth. No autonomy. = No resistance. If the peasants get uppity, you shut off their UBI (already being done, as per NIH) and let them start the month $1,000 in the hole. If they don’t stop, cut off their credit cards and paypal, already being done all over for any ridiculous accusation, with no appeal.

    However, EFFICIENCY IS THE ENEMY OF RESILIENCY. Should anything go slightly wrong in a system run this tight, just in time, you have an instant Holodomor, as they seem to be setting up in centralized farming right now.

    One more idea? In this system MONEY is nothing, it’s worthless. However, SOCIAL STANDING, being a party member, being an INSIDER, maybe owning some blackmail files, is your new de facto currency. The popular kids get Black Sea Dachas and shop in Paris, and the unpopular? Well, they live in cold flats in Donbass if they’re lucky enough not to be shipped to Vladivostok. “For the good of the people,” of course, meaning me and my insider pals.

    If I’m not being clear enough: DON’T DO THIS. No savings means Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Jobs don’t have some loose cash to fool around with some new invention in their parent’s garage. And as the Soviet Union or Medieval Europe, the economy falls into darkness for 1,000 years until you have rule of law and property rights again.

    “Stay in your lane.” That is the sort of advice that is better served to an enemy, not a friend. If everyone followed that advice, you wouldn’t have civilization.” –Adams

    Agreeing that Henry Ford and Steve Jobs should be allowed to tinker on his days off, even though he’s an unknown amateur, probably “wasting state resources” for no good reason.

    “Both UK Parties Are Peddling Fantasies – Tony Blair (R.)”

    I feel sorry for Corbyn, but what is he doing with that platform??? Now’s not the time.

    “John Solomon: They ‘Smeared Me, Just Like Joe McCarthy Smeared People’ (Med.)”

    I hear they also have the documents that Ukraine put their intel services on Solomon and Sara Carter at the behest of the CIA Steady State. Hey, is it illegal for the CIA to pursue U.S. citizens? What if it’s for the good good reason of throwing U.S. elections? Asking for a friend.

    “Aid Groups Condemn Greece Over ‘Prison’ Camps For Migrants, Refugees (G.)”

    Cool. So since they’re the EU’s first port of entry, the EU is going to help pay for them all with contributions proportional to the GDP of member states? No? They’re just going to attack Greece and point fingers at them? Thanks!

    Be sure to keep and eye on those 100 pages of Guiliani documents State released to the DNC FOIA request. There’ll be some fireworks.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 24 2019 #51672
    Dr. D
    Participant

    From yesterday, DNC group demand to know, What were Guliani talking about???

    Here ya go: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/state-department-releases-detailed-accounts-biden-ukraine-corruption

    State Dept releases 100 pages of document implicating Biden and Burisma, that Guliani was looking at.

    Rumor has it “America First” was the name of a group of Generals who were trying to bend the U.S. back to the Constitution back in the 90s. They all died in a mysterious plane crash, you know, ‘cause for security Generals fly on the same plane all the time. Kind of like Navy Seals. Anyhoo, weird how Trumpster, put in by the Marine Generals, used the phrase about 100 times in his inauguration. But hey, you know that phrase ain’t gonna kill itself. Buchanan is right: Russia won the war, we were a rounding error. But that’s okay: the Anglos backed Hitler (see Bushie and Chamberlain) and set up the war TO attack Russia, and also divide Eurasia, under MacKinder’s “World Island” concept, so although it went sideways midstream, overall it worked pretty well: Germany is still occupied and subject to the Anglos today. …Except for the 60 Million dead, but they were all peasants so who cares? Daddy Warbucks made his, amirite?

    Yes, Kosmo, please disagree. We don’t learn anything if we’re the same. It would be shocking indeed if I, an American, were to the LEFT of you, a Swede. But that’s the demands and characters of our nations.

    Is it too late for me to be known as The Claw?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 24 2019 #51659
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Does Trump Have Bunch Of ‘Losers’ To Thank For Growing Economy? (Charlie Hall)”

    He’s missing the point: they KNOW that. What they’ve done is turn money printing into oil. That is quite literally turning straw into gold, or in this case, hot air into gold. It was never meant to turn a profit. The Gov’t, the Oil Insiders, and the Fed, all work together and have since 1974. So if they want to expend four pawns to buy time, they can and have. The taxpayer will foot the bailout or in this case won’t even notice since the debt is so high, the addition on these companies is a rounding error: they, the banks, and the currency will all fail together anyway.

    Anyway, no mystery, no intent, and no problem.

    “the industry was most worried about “the continued threat of a no-deal Brexit”

    He’s full of crap, there’s a European or world recession, sales are down everywhere. No sales: no money, no jobs. Simple. No-Brexit or Brexit-accompli wouldn’t fix that.

    “Brick & Mortar Melts Down as Ecommerce Jumps by Most Ever (WS)”

    Similarly, and bad journalism, yes, but online is wildly smaller than retail, so a huge jump in it doesn’t offset the malls. That is, we’re in recession, overall sales are way down because the people don’t have money. So what little money they have is doing discounts online and saving gas by not driving and eating out.

    “An enormous effort by Eric Zuesse.”

    We really need and appreciate it, like the “18 Points” by Solomon. If you think the 607-people thing is a joke, Bloomberg just spend $34M in anti-Trump ads. That’s more than anyone, more than Obama’s top blitz. More than some candidates have every raised. Spent in one WEEK.

    Still, they’re following conventional wisdom, DJT was outspent 10:1 and still won because people hate the NeoCon/NeoLib candidates just that much.

    “We’ve known this for a while. The OPCW is a cesspool.”

    He whole U.N. is a cesspool just like it, approving or not standing down all kinds of war crimes, and protecting rape and trafficking of their members and soldiers. How dare we not fund it?

    “How The Firm Lost Its Grip (O.)”

    Endless bad behavior, every generation. Edward was a prime example, not only ignoring duties, sleeping around at national intel risk, but a Fascist that supported Europe’s worst. And their close friend, Lord Acton, then said what in watching them? “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Everyone needs a check on their actions, it is a good thing and a benefit, a love to them to do so. They did not love Andrew, because they did not discipline him.

    Even now, they do not love him, or the people: they “un-royaled him?” Puh-lease. Serve 2-5 and that’s a gift, and we’ll be serious. Otherwise we know you love importing East European 14-year-olds and raping them, and Meghan too, who sits next house over, watching. And it IS tough, but you must do something.

    Speaking out is only the FIRST thing, not the last thing. But when you’ll be jailed for doing even that, it’s a place to start.

    in reply to: Empty Frenzy #51658
    Dr. D
    Participant

    I think Vet nailed it. Nothing makes sense unless the arc of what he’s saying is true. Cuomo’s stunt yesterday about “overhearing” a handset telephone (in a restaurant) failed and came out like Cheeto said: you can’t overhear (don’t they check these things off-camera?). Instead of saying, as journalists, “Well, I think we’ve learned something interesting”, they said, “Ermigerd! What are you doing??? Proving the truth is helping Trump! Stop! Stop!” …Which, yes, every day, but that was a good example. If you’re journalists and not political advocates, what would you care which way it goes?

    And since they know that, wouldn’t surprise me a bit if – should they finish placing their nuclear 1st strike in Ukraine and Cheeto gets out, Russia would nuke us on inauguration day of a Mitt Romney or Kamala Harris, because the Steady State is just that dangerous and won’t stop killing people by the millions. …As we see exactly in Ukraine, with all their policies – the ones they’ll remove the President to pursue – blind and based on a Russian threat that doesn’t exist, an expansionism that doesn’t exist, and a first strike that they don’t need.

    “US Is The Biggest Source Of Instability In The World,” Says Senior Chinese Diplomat”
    “Democrats Empower a Pack of Paranoid Neocon Morons”

    Democrats Empower a Pack of Paranoid Neocon Morons

    …You had me at “Neocon morons”… Of course that Not-Neocon-in-name-only, HRC promised she’d attack Russia and start WWIII, which is what they always had planned, ‘cause it solves the debt collapse we’ll all blame them for. Oh, and those uppity peasants, we’ll kill a lot of them too, drinking champers on the castle on the hill.

    I don’t know what you can say, Tony. Okay, to request documents, you need a premise, not a fishing expedition. That’s the 4th, or in this case, separation of powers. Congress doesn’t get into every memo in the Executive branch and micromanage it. Second, their suspicion is that one Trump official once talked to another Trump official? Like how does that make sense, or probable cause? No doubt they’ll release it because it’ll be hilarious like the last 500 accusations, but if you just say “yes” to all fishing expeditions, you’re not holding the Constitution and separation of powers, and more importantly can’t get anything done. …Which is the point, of course.

    So let’s flip it:since everything should be released instantly, why don’t we release all Biden’s stuff? I mean there we even have probable cause, with a dozen check stubs and sworn affidavits of national MP’s. Yet somehow an old random phone call is demandable and impeachable but sworn testimony of a foreign parliament isn’t?

    “GOEBBELS ON THE REICHSTAG”

    Ah, AntiFa couldn’t have said it any better, but their hero Alinsky said just that in his book decades ago, and his acolytes like HRC have demonstrably followed his strategy since then, with their zealots acting in and directing government to work against the people as we see in the news today.

    Because: “Yes, Ukraine Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election!”

    Which, duh, we all knew. However, since the CIA/MI6 Steady Staters set up their $5B totally illegal coup, and turned around to attack their own government at home…they then set the definition not for just some bureaucratic mishandling felonies, but LITERAL TREASON. Ah, if only they’d kept doing it from their London Embassy office like before, but the people were increasingly voting against them, and like Goebbels, needed a big, sharp push. We’ll see. No one’s ever been prosecuted before, but if not the CIA/Ukraine/Soros bloc will remove all U.S. democracy and murder all Trump’s family, as they’ve publicly promised, and as Biden said on T.V. just last night.

    in reply to: Empty Frenzy #51632
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Yes, and that’s what I was saying about Twitter. Every 5 seconds, 24 hours a day, reporting such things with breathless intensity and great lack of reflection. Not sure how that works since I’m not susceptible to it, but reminds me of slot machines. Why are the flashing lights interesting and emotional? I don’t know, but all these companies pay millions to psychological experts, professors even, who for $10 will use their full force for real, true evil: Madison Avenue and Silicon Valley.

    However this works, that’s why, but addicts are not hard-boiled reporters, or thinking clearly, they’re just hustling for their next, low-class, humiliating, Pop. Later on when you’re not a crack whore, you look back on it in wonder, but at the time it all seems perfectly reasonable and not too bad. Hanging out with your friends, the true believers, fightin’ the Man.

    Don’t worry it too much. Time’s almost over. They’re getting to $700B repos fast, had to push crypto-trading volumes to 5x all coins ever mined every day to contain the price, and we’re not getting crops in and they can’t print food. So get an armchair and a book by the window like we used to, as there are more practical things afoot.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 23 2019 #51620
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Bus
    https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/stranded-how-americas-failing-public-transportation-increases-inequality/393419/

    So Solomon fires back for kids-who-don’t-read-well-and-do-other-stuff-too:

    Responding to Lt. Col. Vindman about my Ukraine columns … with the facts

    28 documented facts about the Ukraine thing.

    I read Foss’ twitter at last, and I have a quote myself, “A more wretched hive of scum and villainy you will never see.” Twitter is a garbage heap. And not because of the bias: I’m quite sure you can find an equivalent bias on the right, unless it’s most probably been purged. It’s the tenor which I’m still trying to understand. It goes,

    “Person A committed crime Y!!! Can you believe it???”

    Wow, that’s quite an allegation, do you have any evidence for that?

    Person B has links to the Russian mafia and Person C, and ties to crime X.”

    Again, what? That’s huge. Okay, hold on, what do you mean by “links”, how can you tell “mafia” from normal business, Who’s person C? And I’m not sure X is a provable crime. Anyway, can we get back to A? What happened with that allegation and evidence?

    “Person D covered for Crime W, who was once photographed with Person E, and we all know what that means! Bombshell, why aren’t they In jail?”

    Hold on, people were photographed together once? When? How are they linked? Crime W has already been disputed and apparently not moving forward, and no I don’t know what that means. It’s tied to whom, how?

    What happened to allegations Y, X, W, Q, and V? If they’re crimes and you guys care, why aren’t you following the facts and listing them for me?

    I read for 3 hours and got back to November 12th. Does anybody do any work? How would you have time to even RE-post that often, much less create content? And certainly not with thorough research down at the courthouse. …Not that there weren’t a few credible accusations I wouldn’t mind looking at, but this method is literally insane. It’s emotion-based, it’s presumption based, we-all-know-who’s-in-and-what’s-true, yet not evidence-free exactly, more like, true to Americans, “evidence-loose.” That is to say, nobody I read cared a single second if what they were saying was true, nor would lower themselves to call the other guy and ask his side of the story, guilty or innocent. That is to say, It’s Bullsh-t. Bullsh-t is when you couldn’t care less if it’s true or false if it sounds good and gets what you want. So sure, sometimes your line of bullsh-t has facts, but not long, because facts, and documentation, and evidence are boring, boring, boring, and always go places nobody likes.

    Meanwhile, go back to my usual sources, and they say this: “Here’s a list of provable, legal facts.” Really, what do they mean? “Here’s what I believe they mean, and why I have that conclusion.” Ok, thanks. Sounds plausible, can we move it to a court of law? “We’re trying, but you see from my annotated list of obstacles and problems, we expect headwinds.”

    So back to Solomon, apparently testimony of the victim who’s been raped is not real, not evidence, made-up, and undiscussed. When you steal $7B from a nation with the lowest income in Europe and a few thousand die, what else would you call it? That’s a serious allegation, yet they have deep legal evidence provided, to the best of Ukraine’s ability. But in the new world, we hate victims and ignore them even when they file court affidavits, ’cause, my side. Disgusting.

    The …State Department … suggests that Ukraine is virtually an occupied territory.”

    Yes, they’re into victim slavery too, even as she attempts to file documents that are ignored by the media because they’re not cool.

    “Too old. Too young. Too white. Too leftwing.”

    None of these were problems until their identity politics required them to be problems, and to mistrust and turn on anyone slightly different from yourself. Not. Election. Winning. But it does cause that awesome civil war they want! Personally, I still don’t know why they should be problems. Bernie was in with one set. Kennedy got elected with the other. So? Take responsibility for yourself and stop making excuses and surrendering.

    “The president is competitive against every one of the major candidates. The Democrats are still kind of fumbling for a message: it’s really not enough to be against Trump.”

    We, plus their own party, has been screaming this since the pant-suit left. They will do anything – kill everyone by shutting off the oil, kill everyone starting WWIII – anything except get a platform that helps people. And ESPECIALLY not people in Flyoverland you MUST have to win the electoral college. They will definitely nuke 10 nations before they help an unemployed black man in Milwaukee. Come on: it’s a platform, it’s not that hard. You just lie then do the exact opposite of it later like everyone else does.

    “The All-Women MSNBC Debate Panel Was a Right-Wing Disaster (Lazare) “

    Because there’s no such thing as gender and it wouldn’t matter if it did, gender matters a huge, overwhelming, great deal. Until the next sentence, when it doesn’t. But it does. But men and women are the same. Except they’re totally different. Which is why it matters, except it doesn’t. They’re equal! Which is why it’s import my side gets an exclusive and your side gets shut out.

    Idea: do your job. I don’t care which gender you are. If necessary I’ll adjust for that myself.

    “Barr Says Epstein Died by a Series of Coincidences (CJ)”

    That’s odd, because they’re prosecuting the guards for criminal conspiracy. Conspiracy of two? And just before then, they said nothing happened. But now you’re starting arrests. Here’s an idea: he signed his fortune away to the plaintiffs, which the court just said they’re going to pay, and now he’s in witness protection under Barr. So how can the subsequent prosecutions be stopped? Impeachment threat, maybe? Not impeachment, that’s real, but the threat must always exist so any prosecution of the guilty becomes obstruction.

    in reply to: Memes and Smears and Stuff #51593
    Dr. D
    Participant

    You’re right about communism in America, but words only mean what we collective understand them to mean, so I can’t be the only one to distinguish between the sub-types. When no one distinguishes them within their minds, there is no difference.

    I don’t know why we would add any finer distinctions here, however, since every addition of that Social progressiveism since 1913 has made things measurably worse. For the good of the people we had the war on poverty, the war on drugs, bankrupted social security, shut down all the charity hospitals and destroyed health care, wildly raised the price of houses with mortgage help and benefits, along with the price of college, neither of which can ever be paid, bankrupted Millennials in the process, destroyed the cities and the small towns, income tax moved from 1% to 39% and expanded from the 0.1% to everyone down to the poverty line, raised inflation with the costs, then the inflation plus the social benefits utterly destroyed the family — the only true and working communist structure, yet the one thing communists hate above all others.

    That’s a near-universal, Sherman’s march-to-the-sea, scorched-earth legacy that has not only left nothing functional standing, but has indebted our nation among many others, to $200T combined liabilities, and that may not include personal debts or states like IL and CA pensions.

    They may vote for Corbyn or Bernie, sure. We’ve seen that throughout South America…where with a turn to the left functionality, poverty, and income disparity again gets multiples worse…but I just don’t see how. The people would have to have faith in government, and the government would have to have the illusion of wealth and functionality to sell the idea. Martin Armstrong believes, with universal bankruptcy the cycle of the state has peaked, and I’m inclined to agree with him.

    Democratic Socialism is failing in Sweden, France, England, Germany, Spain, Finland, Canada, (and California), can’t you just let it go? Their promises, like the Windrush people’s, were always false: you’re on your own. Since you’re on your own anyway, why not dispense with the illusion?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 22 2019 #51579
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Minntonka
    Minnesota homeless rises 10%

    “a personal leak to one of the former allied FBI officials now working for CNN.”

    So they’re immediately getting paid to leak to CNN, with a cushy job? I’m guessing that, unlike Wikileaks, that’s not a leak, it’s a bribe, and prosecutable on both sides. And definitively not whistleblowing, ca-ching.

    The FBI’s reliance on Steele has raised significant public concerns”

    But not that he was MI6, working on behalf of Britain for U.S. election tampering? Ah, it’s only bad when the Russians do it, not Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, or U.K. …Or should I say, it’s only bad when it’s MY side, when it’s your side we’re undermining, it’s GLORIOUS!

    “Ken Starr: We’re ‘Nowhere Close’ To Impeachable Offenses (Fox)”

    Not that anyone should believe Ken Starr, since he pushed similarly wrong, untrue charges in the LAST impeachment (A thing I didn’t get to yesterday), but the witnesses themselves said they couldn’t find bribery or impeachment.

    “Giuliani: “Massive Pay-For-Play” Soros-Ukraine Scheme Facilitated by US (ZH)”

    Look out: Soros, He-who-must-not-be-named. Because it’s a “trope.” Therefore, all Jews, anywhere, worldwide, cannot commit crimes and CERTAINLY can never be investigated for them, right Mr. Netanyahu? They have never touched either money or matzo balls. It would be racist to say Germans are blonde or Brazilians play football.

    “presidential candidate Joe Biden would be among the witnesses”

    We’ve got a problem since he’s losing the ability to speak coherently. No slight to him, just google it and watch for 15 minutes. Yet the front runner of the fake polls until they fake-changed it to fake Warren and Buttigeig (possibly unfake).

    “The Civilian Government Doesn’t Owe Deference to Military Officers (McMaken)”

    Doncha know the military sets the policy and they remove the President (and even the citizens) if he doesn’t obey? That’s Democracy! When the generals-who-don’t-know-the-largest-company-in-Ukraine vote, and the people follow THEIR orders. Now go die in a foxhole, Joe Kentucky. So which is fascism: military government, or opposing military government?

    “Is there a part of the party that hates the party?” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)

    Uh, yes. Like 2/3 of the party’s base hates the party. That’s how AOC got in and they’re ripping apart Biden and now hate Obama. If you weren’t in the D.C. bubble you might have noticed what your own party, own people, are doing every minute of the day on national T.V. Clue: It’s not Tulsi.

    What’s Tulsi planning? Well, I’m sure she wouldn’t mind being the DNC moderate but it’s still the Neo-libs vs the Communists there, so I expect she’s setting up 2024 when the party’s reformed some more and she’s not facing Trump. So in that way, good plan. This is what Trump did testing 2012 and backing out: it wasn’t time yet, he couldn’t break through.

    Chart on government spending: So you see why I say we’re ALREADY a socialist (Social-Democratic) nation? We’re barely below Sweden and yet savaged for being outrageously, irresponsibly, impossibly Uber-“Capitalist.” No mas. When 30-50% of the nation is government, you’re not Capitalist by any definition, and you’re also reaching the wall, as France, Sweden, Italy and U.K. show: their order is collapsing.

    “we will consume as much energy and materials in the next ±30 years as we did cumulatively in the past 10,000. Is such a scenario inevitable?”

    Nope. It will fix itself when the financial sphere comes unhinged. Millions will die. But that’s what you wanted, right? Then they won’t use resources and release CO2. Killing humanity to save humanity?

    About lying and double-cross everyone, every time:
    http://www.alt-market.com/index.php/articles/4003-trump-vs-warren-and-the-fake-battle-against-the-elites
    Live from the Carter campaign!

    “If, after the inauguration, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I’d quit….Of course, as soon as Carter entered office he injected no less than ten members of the globalist Trilateral Commission and numerous other elites into key positions in his administration, including Cy Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski. And of course, his top aide never quit.”

    Well, the people caught on. Live from the Reagan campaign!

    “I don’t believe that the Trilateral Commission is a conspiratorial group, but I do think its interests are devoted to international banking, multinational corporations, and so forth. I don’t think that any Administration of the U.S. Government should have the top nineteen positions filled by people from any one group or organization representing one viewpoint. No, I would go in a different direction…”
    Reagan, like Carter, was touted as having no affiliations with the elites. He was pure and unsullied by the globalists. But alas, Reagan also quickly picked at least 10 Trilateral Commission members for his transition team once he was elected, and he served the interests of the elites throughout his two terms in the White House (for the most part) under the watchful eye of George H.W. Bush.”

    But people are beginning to suspect! Live from the Warren campaign!

    “Warren’s attacks on billionaires are gaining extreme media attention, and the media loves it. Her latest ad campaign criticized four rich guys by name, including Leon Cooperman, the former Ameritrade CEO Joe Ricketts, the former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and the investor Peter Thiel. Some of these men have responded publicly and angrily, and so another great farce of a wrestling match begins and propels another supposedly anti-establishment candidate into stardom.
    But here’s the thing – Warren’s wealth tax is not so anti-establishment. Elites like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have been openly calling for higher taxes on the super-rich. In tandem with the wealth tax, her climate change position is seen as a shot across the bow of oil companies and the financial power structure. Yet, her policies are almost exactly in line with the Green New Deal and the UN’s Agenda 2030, which the globalists greatly desire.

    Warren’s image as anti-establishment? It’s as fake as Trump’s image.

    Warren has been featured multiple times in the magazine Foreign Affairs, the official magazine of the Council On Foreign Relations. On top of that they published her article…”

    He missed that she took in endless donations as Senator Warren, so she can pretend she’s not taking them in as Candidate Warren. Similar to her bank stance back in Dodd-Frank, etc. Same re-runs for 100 years. Yawn.

    Speaking of sneaking and double-crossing, the DNC House wants TRUMP’S secret state to continue well-funded. “Dems Sneak PATRIOT Act Renewal Past the American People”

    Dems Sneak PATRIOT Act Renewal Past the American People

    Yay! Let’s give more power to Trump, Orange Man Bad, RussiaRussiaRussia. Which is why I’m shocked they’re not taking the people’s line in the impeachment and choice of charges, so they can win and then double-cross us. –I mean, not like any politician believes a word they speak. Do they?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 21 2019 #51522
    Dr. D
    Participant

    They should have the same photograph on the roads of America, Tulsa and DesMoines, 2019, every. day.
    Camden

    Deadliest city in America plans to disband its entire police force and fire 270 cops to deal with budget crunch

    “Ukrainian MP Claims $7.4 Billion Obama-Linked Laundering (ZH)”

    Price of U.S. extractions from Ukraine now over $7B. Like Haiti, no wonder they’re mad: they’re the poorest nation in Europe, whose gas was cut off in a bitter winter for lack of funds. Where’s our money??? Why’d our people die the minute they talked to Americans? The price slid over to the Biden side now alleged to count $13M. No surprise, $2M seems chump change.

    And speaking of corruption and being on the lam, the Baltimore (fake) book deal laundering seems to be going to court. Okay, so TWO whole people arrested, and one of them died in prison. Maybe 20,000-50,000 case left to go.

    “Story about Migrant Children Scrubbed as UN Said It Happened Under Obama (RT)”

    Doesn’t matter what they report: didn’t happen. Even if the U.N. said it and I read it, it’s my side right or wrong. Facts don’t matter when I’ve got my truth. Btw, last heard the story still wasn’t “scrubbed” or corrected. It’s up there, still proudly claiming it’s Trump, as I see claimed all over, even here. “Walls are closing in.” “RussiaRussiaRussiaRussia”

    “jeered by a substantial section of the audience for stating that climate change impacted hardest on the poorest people in the poorest countries.”

    How odd. Is it because they’re so universally used to “charity” always being a scam? I know I am.

    “Lebanon Lost $10BN in Bank Deposits Since August; Bond Yields Soar Past 100% Into “Venezuela Territory”

    Well Israel can’t beat Lebanon with soldiers and got their butts kicked without ever facing the REAL soldiers – possibly because they use U.S. hardware – so do what works best and attack and warfare with finance. Hey, works in Hong Kong.

    But they don’t let that stop them. They also bombed Damascus yesterday, just ‘cause they can and no one will say anything, just keep that foreign aid rolling in to buy more bombs and bribe more Senators. Ah, Democracy! The power of the people who don’t even live there.

    Who’s our other foreign aid, foreign transfer to? How about China to fund their million-man, organ-harvesting, minority-purging concentration camps? You know, so “Socially Conscious” companies like Nike and Apple can get a little mass-slavery discount there.

    But we just HAVE to send them money! We can’t boycott or tariff their products at all! We only boycott chicken sandwiches, not organ-harvesting prison slavery. If they do that but make my iPhone, I’ll pay $1,000 to make sure that happens!

    “Hundreds of “Bleed Control Kits” Issued to Bars Across London”

    … Knife crime in the City of London jumped by 43% over the last year…

    If only stabbing people were illegal…if only they’d outlaw the…oh wait, it is and they did. And yet somehow people get knives, guns, drugs, and commit crimes with them…even in prison. Here’s a thought: we used to be able to get all these things guns, knives, poison – in fact as I said you still can: why do people now WANT to stab each other, since police stop nothing but clean up the mess and take statements after?

    “…and suicide rates among men are significantly higher (than women) in most countries around the world.”

    And Jo Swinson giggles. But that’s okay, her love of British men dying is nothing compared to her blood-thirst for nuclear war. A “whirling, narcissistic, female version of Dr. Strangelove, is beyond my wildest nightmares.” But she’s there because she fits and her backers and peers love it. You know, the financial backers from yesterday who’ve been promoting the mass-death of 2/3 of the human population for 50 years and receive wide approval and cheers? “We had to nuke the planet to save the planet.” A Dementor-ridden death cult.

    “Downward Mobility’ A Reality For Many British Youngsters Today (G.)”

    Well if people won’t hang together they will most certainly hang separately. But that would be #Logos. We cannot have that order, cooperation, and love.

    “Why Won’t Carrie Lam Allow an Independent Inquiry? (SCMP)”

    Basically it’s impossible for anyone to be “Independent.” Whatever they say or do, they’ll claim they were working for somebody.

    Jeffrey Epstein Guests Were Secretly Filmed in Every Bedroom and Toilet (Sun)”

    Wow, color me shocked, having deduced this from the first 5 facts 20 years ago. Now since they also aren’t stupid and they all KNEW they were being filmed, why did they do it? A: because they thought THEY were on the inside and untouchable, right up through CBS to the Ohio Sheriff to the NM Governor to the FBI and President. Until you cross someone and are not. And it worked! Exactly what they expected: they did whatever they wanted and no consequences, even WHEN caught. …Until they crossed the American People. They’re the only force able to put them down and stop it. And we haven’t even got off the couch yet. Don’t make me come up there.

    Okay, so since the FBI ran the SWAT-raids, who has those tapes now? Hey! Wanna bet it’s Trumpster? Boy the Bush-iani’s have been quiet lately. How would you stop him from releasing them? With an impeachment that would claim “obstruction!” if he tried? Thoughts.

    China’s Appetite for Coal Power Returns Despite Climate Pledge (G.)”

    But China’s Paris Agreement – the one they love so much and are so mad about – said China and India can do whatever they want for 20 more years while the US and EU suffer! But we just GOTTA sign it and let them open those coal plants while WV collapses! You know: ‘cause we’re in a “climate crisis” that can only be cured in 10. Weird, huh? It’s almost like it’s a scam and they don’t believe it. Nah. Then they would all be buying mansions at sea level in Miami and Martha’s Vinyard, and we haven’t see that, have we?

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2019/08/22/barack-and-michelle-obama-are-reportedly-buying-martha-vineyard-mansion/cuoVonwx5Uxen9GAQMo1bP/story.html

    Ah, another day in the neighborhood.

    in reply to: The Godfather in US Politics #51520
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Nailed it. But again, where did we get the idea that we should dislike him, if not from the same crew we are right now saying can’t be trusted? Maybe we should go back a half-step? What do we know and when, and how, did we know it?

    The day after Trump declared Presidency and the DNC election machine started? It’s weird after going to their wedding he only became the anti-Christ the day after he declared. Check and double-check.

    in reply to: The BIG ONE #51516
    Dr. D
    Participant

    It IS a setup, but not from the whistleblower. I believe knowing the media would ONLY report on his crimes, he set up a mirror of Biden, called Zelinsky, then posted a fake transcript to the server and put it around that he was withholding funds. Since all the Bolton-moles talk to each other to undermine constantly — which he can see with real, legal FISA warrants — the moles got the CIA to illegally spy on a U.S. citizen and President, in open sedition to overthrow him, read it, and made their play. That’s why they discuss the “secure server” (like the White House isn’t ‘secure’?) and the ‘8 times’ transcript Schiff tried to read into the Congressional record, and their whole impeachment and actions, as you see even today, all depended on him NOT releasing the transcript. Because they thought they HAD the transcript. But what’s Schiff, Brennan, and “Charlie” gonna do? Say they hacked the White House server so they can start “I love Disney girls” Zaid’s coup to begin? That’s why top dummy Colonel “I’ve never-heard-of-the-largest-gas-company-in-Ukraine” Vindman testified he tried to access the transcript and edit it for us, although later testifying that it was correct. Seems odd. In fact, it would be a major felony, except he took no material actions, because he couldn’t. That’s a trap, and that’s how you get CNN to voice the name “Burisma, Biden” in public.

    Weather, yes, I did see the snow on your kangaroos, and as you know, record cold here for 2-3 years now. But as weather is specific, we saw this with my other article on early cold in Sweden: there seemed to be a line across Europe this year, and if you were above it, like Sweden, too cold, but if you were below it, like France, too hot. Not like last year where it snowed in Spain, Turkey, and the Sahara. …Which is odd since it’s the loose jet stream from Alaska to Texas that makes the cold here, and yet a life-locked jet stream in Europe? But these things happen. My point is, they ONLY report on Paris, and NEVER report on Sweden. Always warm, all events are warm, even snow is a signal of warming, but never on the increasing glaciers and record snowfalls we are only now beginning to see. Which is predominate, averaged over a year? Not sure yet, but the tipping seems to suggest we’ll have confirmation of cooling soon, after the 20 year plateau we just ended.

    Check what the weather was from 1850-1600, and see if the weather is headed that way. You’ll notice all the geopolitical interest, in Sudan, Libya, Ukraine, are in the grain-growing belts that exist and green up only in that cooling. Like Libya this year having rain and record crop production, just like back in Roman times.

    in reply to: The BIG ONE #51512
    Dr. D
    Participant

    So much good stuff here. They keep us so busy with non-crimes that we don’t have time to chase real crimes. So…The President called a leader and wanted to trade (and I’m not even sure that’s proven), but gave up everything and got nothing? Well first you’d have to prosecute every world leader ever. Then I guess his crime would be to be unable to communicate clearly, and totally fail at bribing, extorting, and negotiating.

    On the flip side: NSA/CIA still wiretapping everyone on earth, at home a violation of the 4th, breaking a million times a day the first ten laws passed in the U.S. Federal Register. Sending arms to Saudi and Israel, which they use, having no Congressional Declaration of War, and indeed, in the case of both, not even the imaginary one against al-Q. Interfering in national governments in Hong Kong and Boliva. Attempting to throw elections in Russia. Failing to enforce the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 10th Amendments at home. Enforcing federal drug laws which the 18th Amendment proves can only be done via an anti-drug Amendment process we never had. Ditto Obamacare, for which interference into BOTH non-delegated powers AND contract law are specifically prohibited and illegal. It’s also a proportional tax, which the 16th tells us can only be legal via Constitutional Amendment. We have a variety of cases of bribery and human trafficking unprosecuted, and 33,000 emails — minimum — which are EACH a felony, and whose mishandling got 18 U.S. agents murdered in China.

    …That’s just 60 seconds, and I would guess all of those warrant removal from office. But NOPE! They LIKE all those things. What they DON’T like is for war, bribery, power-grabs, spying to blackmail, and mishandling documents to END. …Which really amazes me, since you’d just impeach, get the public support, then lie, double-cross the public, and do it all over again harder the minute you’re back in power just like every day of the last 100 years. …And it’s not like they have an aversion to lying or anything, I think they’re just literally incapable of having the words of truth in their mouths at any time, even when that’s the winning play here. It’s a religious thing, like pork.

    So yes, sadly, and thanks to the DNC and media, we don’t get to bring those things up enough. Because why bother? Much as Cheeto likes those (illegal) things, his enemies like them 10x harder. Removing him will grease the pipe for worse, to trample us fast, not slow. …I’ll take slow, maybe our rear-guard action will think of something.

    On that note: YOU CAN’T BE FASCIST, proto, crypto, or otherwise, IF YOU WANT SMALLER GOVERNMENT. Also you’re against fascism if you want free speech. Also counter to fascism, to allow the people, minorities, and even your enemies, to legally arm themselves. Also not fascist if you STOP foreign wars instead of increasing them. So tell me how this works: Trump is a fascist that wants lower tax intake, smaller government, less regulation and control, less spying, more states’ rights, no (internet) book burning, more free speech from his enemies, allows protests and discussion even up to the sidewalk of Trump Towers, to be a peaceful, prosperous trading nation where the ethnic groups he’s supposedly purging are both well-armed and untouchable without a search warrant because he’s obedient to every Federal Judge even when they’re clearly wrong and going to be overturned in the Supreme Court?

    How does it even make sense to you to say a platform that is the diametric OPPOSITE of fascism, is fascist? Is this like how they routinely call blacks and latinos “white supremacists” here? Like that literally makes no sense.

    The only way to have a fascist state is to have a bigger internal spy agency getting more centralized power that they use to stop free speech and outlaw self-defense (and thereafter attack their neighbors). And as above, no I’m not thrilled, but to accuse someone, you have to do so correctly. You can’t accuse a man of embezzlement when in fact it was murder. You’re also not going to win any tactical battles if what you believe about your enemy is entirely, diametrically wrong. You’ll constantly mis-position and mis-fire, exactly as everyone worldwide seems to be doing, every day for three years without ever once noticing “Hey, I haven’t hit the target even ONCE! Maybe I’M the one who’s mistaken here!” Nope! This is really the infuriating part. Like I’m looking at a football pitch covered 3 feet deep in spades, and all I hear is “sandwich, sandwich, sandwich”. No! Use your eyes: NOT sandwich! Spade! Touch! Feel! See! Try! Handle, wood, iron! “sandwich, sandwich, sandwich.” In the meantime holes aren’t being dug and everybody’s hungry and can’t figure out why.

    But the problem is, we don’t dislike him ENOUGH? Where did you get the information that we ought to dislike him at all? From the same people who can’t tell fascism from Liberty, or a shovel from a sandwich? …Go check those guys first. Their assumptions have not been good and their predictions have not played out. Pretty much the retraction of each article is written WITH each article, posts before midnight, and is ignored the following day like it never happened, 900 days in a row. They don’t have credibility, unlike TAE. TAE has predicted what would happen, what was likely to be true and false accurately for years, while CNN and MSNBC drifted into lizard-alien plane-eating black-hole Russians-shutting-off-Minnesota conspiracy nonsense that would make Alex Jones blush. But you BELIEVE CNN and the NY Times, who are universally mistaken, but not the bloggers who have been accurate for decades. Spade. Sandwich. Believe the believable and not the failed and discredited.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 20 2019 #51470
    Dr. D
    Participant

    It doesn’t really follow. It’s like saying because OxFam HAS done charity work, it’s impossible that they were just exposed as covering up for terrible, serial, overseas crimes, and protecting the abusers at the highest level. It doesn’t matter that MOST policemen shoot no one if A policeman shoots someone.

    At the same time, there have been books advising people to love their neighbors, give to charity, and forgive, yet the same words are quoted to commit genocide. That’s why, even if they’re not written by people with bad motives, hidden interests fund a Club of Rome and get their ideas publicized worldwide, while Economics schools that would restrain them those billionaire funders are shut down and replaced, or Assange can’t say a word. That is, the same with all pirates: they hijack the ship and plunder others for their own ends. ESPECIALLY when those people are naive and credible.

    I don’t happen to believe it in this case as we have dozens of environmentalists saying that in their meetings they were saying EXACTLY this to each other since the 70’s: “The world is burning, the people won’t react: MAKE IT ALL UP IF YOU HAVE TO.” In fact, I believe we saw that in the East Anglia emails, and certainly last month when the creator of the New Green Deal said in effect, “Yeah, it’s really not an environmental bill, it’s just the wish-list for Socialism we had lying around.” He says it. It’s published. “…We know this is happening. We can google this stuff. We know “where the trains are going,” as it were.” All you have to do is read their words and credit that they actually believe themselves.

    Nobody does. Despite every possible evidence to the contrary, day after day forever, they just think other people are honest as themselves. They’re not. They’re murderous self-serving weasels who would kill your mother in the NIH for a tuppence or torture publishers to death on live T.V. for the sheer amusement of it.

    So for the above quote, they’ve spend multi-trillions over the years supporting the kill all humans/environmental panic narrative. Yet when they do that, every plan these same Club of Rome people create is the diametric OPPOSITE of your quote. They want, not more local and distributed power, but always and everywhere more centralized, unrestrained, “non-ethnic” power. Even when it bites them, as with the present EU, it doesn’t deter them a whit: with every obstacle they demand MORE power, MORE concentrated and centralized, further from the people and accountability “for the sake of the planet emergency.” Just as my pirate theory would predict. And yes, if they DID distribute power and leave the people alone, it WOULD re-“humanize the system”, so why is every move, every breath of every leader, of everyone quoting the Club of Rome the direct opposite for 50 years?

    Because they’re murderous self-serving weasels who would plan to kill your mother in the NIH for a tuppence or AND torturing publishers to death on live T.V. right nowfor the sheer amusement of it.to save the planet.

    “Don’t you know deniers must be imprisoned and killed?” — The Cult™ (Wish that were hyperbole, I can find the quotes.)

    “We had to kill 6 billion animals on the planet to save the animals on the planet.” –Mai Lai revisited.

    Is a shovel evil? Doesn’t really matter if they’re using it to kill everyone in the room. We name it and stop it anyway.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 20 2019 #51466
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Shorpy has very green living. Isn’t that perfectly environmental, in a wood tent, under the trees, just as the Green New Deal and Agenda 2030 has outlined for us?

    “In the early 1990’s the Club of Rome published a book called ‘The First Global Revolution’. In it they state:

    “In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill. In their totality and their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone together. But in designating these dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap, which we have already warned readers about, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention in natural processes. and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself.”

    “at the same time ‘The First Global Revolution’ was being published, UN assistant secretary general Robert Muller was publishing his manifesto which is now collected on a website called ‘Good Morning World’. Muller argues that global governance must be achieved using the idea of “protecting the Earth” and environmentalism as the key components. Through fear of environmental Apocalypse, the public could be convinced to accept global government as a necessary nanny state to keep society from destroying itself.”

    Like I said, you don’t have to be a genius, just semi-literate. Just read what they say in their white papers. It’s not a secret. However, “reading stuff” is too hard for reporters to understand.

    So anyway, if you’d all like to live as green, environmental, light-on-the-land, meat-free as the folks of Elm Grove, Oklahoma, 1936, jump on board! We’ve got Oklahoma and 20 other states almost to that level already.

    UN Demands ‘Full Investigation’ After Sweden Drops Assange Rape Probe (RT)”

    You mean he wants to investigate why the torture was inadequate, hasn’t worked, and is applied only to a handful of wrong-thinkers instead of whole ethnic groups like their hero China? And, the U.N. has legal jurisdiction over SWE, UK, US, and AUS? I for one wouldn’t approve since they’re the guys how oversee torture, rape, and trafficking with troops and aid workers in Africa, but since my nation already stopped funding them, maybe we’re even.

    P.S. poor Sweden is now the bomb-and-grenade capital of the world and Denmark and Norway are building walls. Nice! Maybe if you’d stood for the law-and-order back then, this wouldn’t have happened.

    Oh, and P.S. “rape”? This was consensual sex by adults, confirmed 100% of the time by all interviewed, as opposed to, say, the sex lives of the Duke of York and the Governor of New Mexico. So guess who’s free?

    Statement for Aaron Swartz Day 2019 (Chelsea Manning)”

    Speaking of who’s free, like Martin Armstrong, a life sentence for mere contempt of court. …And that for questions she’s already been asked, already answered, and already doesn’t have to answer under the 5A, a 230 year-old law.

    “Massive ‘Dark-Money’ Group Boosted Democrats in 2018 (Pol.)”

    That’s easy: you ship $5B in MY tax money to Ukraine, then let it leak out by the millions with 100 different frauds, only to recollect in the DNC coffers to pay bribes and interference for the next $5B you send and re-collect. This is why we must have eternal war, ever-increasing, forever. And should anyone stop the money and corruption, that blackmail won’t get paid and everyone goes down, so if you stop corruption, the corrupt are going to – will have to – go nuts.

    …In theory. Nothing like that ever happens in United States, and certainly not lately.

    “John Solomon, …whose work has been promoted by President Donald Trump”
    Whoops! That’s enough! “Are you now, or have you ever, been Donald Trump?” The End. All ears shut, no discussions can be had. Stop bothering my truth with your facts. …No, really: I wish I were kidding; major networks literally say you must not talk about, must not talk with, must not even HEAR the opinions of ANYONE other than yourself. In The Cult™ What else could you call it? What other type of group is prohibited from even SPEAKING to outsiders?

    “Reclaiming Your Inner Fascist (C.J. Hopkins)”

    We (i.e., Americans, Brits, Europeans, and other citizens of the global capitalist empire) get up in the morning, go to work, shop, pay the interest on our debts, and otherwise obey the laws and conform to the mores of a system of power that has murdered countless millions of people in pursuit of global-hegemonic dominance. It has perpetrated numerous wars of aggression. Its military occupies most of the planet. Its Intelligence agencies (i.e., secret police) operate a worldwide surveillance apparatus that can identify, target, and eliminate anyone, anywhere, often by remote control. Its propaganda network never sleeps, nor is there any real way to escape its constant emotional and ideological conditioning.

    …We know this is happening. We can google this stuff. We know “where the trains are going,” as it were.

    And yet, we do not see ourselves as monsters.”

    Sounds familiar. Like I say this Every. Day. Answer: “Well I’m not in the cattle car, so whaddya want?” Very moral of you. I’m sure it’ll help when: YOU’RE NEXT.

    Speaking of, however, both Vindman AND Schiff say they have no idea who the Whistleblower is, yet 100% of the time they know EXACTLY whose name not to say. How odd! You see if I didn’t know who he was, me, I’d have to say nobody’s name, or name everybody I told and hope for the best. …And in the world of lies, this is when the (non)Whistleblower has no right, only a modest courtesy, to anonymity.

    So…how long before we can expect Solomon in jail, or his children killed? ‘Cause, like Epstein, that story isn’t going to kill itself.

    “Why does Hong Kong still have courts?”

    Why do we? To create the illusion of Justice, of course, in service of lawless overlords who do as they will, with open slavery and Droight de Signeur. I mean, that’s why Weinstein paid Cuomo and the Manhattan D.A. a couple mil in “donations”, and why the press has never mentioned it again, right? Who knew you could get a NY open-rape license so cheap?

    …But we’re mad at Solomon. Yup, sounds like our inner fascist, bootlicking power wherever it’s found.

    China Vows to Retaliate If Trump Signs Hong Kong Democracy Act into Law (SCMP)”

    They knew we did this kind of thing. We haven’t even really escalated to hardball yet. Maybe they should sign a fair deal before it gets worse. Oh wait, I forgot: we have no leverage. We can only surrender.

    “Fossil Fuel Production on Track for Double the Safe Climate Limit (G.)”

    News is in: earliest snow and coldest October in 100+ years in Sweden, some glaciers rebuilding and snowiest October in Nunavut and Baffin Island, cold down to the Gulf of Mexico, again. Record snowstorms and cold twice across the whole farm belt, snow doesn’t leave the North for weeks, they’re harvesting in the snow and mud trying to get a little more out, but soybeans won’t be salvageable.

    ““There will in no more snow by 2016” -Al Gore

    “According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.”

    Well he should know now since Anglia is buried in it. Again. 3rd(?) year in a row?

    Maybe he didn’t notice. …You know, after the 20 year (!!!) pause in warming they also didn’t notice, or edited out then destroyed the raw data, and lied about it in emails, which Anglia is now infamous for. Science™!!!

    …Sounds like they should quadruple the CO2 quick before we can’t grow or harvest corn at all. Oh and exactly as predicted by MY science, and exactly erasing the theories of THEIR science. …But when your theory fails, just ad hominim and change the data, amirite?

    in reply to: Assange, Nitrogen, Pensions, Solomon #51465
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Ah, Tahiti, that’s the place, eh?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 19 2019 #51427
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Sweden Drops Rape Investigation Into Julian Assange”

    …They just discovered this? …Don’t worry, this is just the 2nd (3rd?) time they’ve dropped it, before saying “Just Kidding!!!”

    Oh and then the process crimes arising from the non-crime. Always the process crimes.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 19 2019 #51425
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “The Roger Stone – Wikileaks – Russia Hoax (Craig Murray)”

    “As ever, the Guardian wins the prize for the most tendentious reporting of Roger Stone’s conviction….In fact this is the precise opposite of the truth. Stone was found guilty of lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee by claiming to have links to Wikileaks when in fact he had none. And of threatening Randy Credico to make Credico say there were such links, when there were not.
    It is also worth noting the trial was nothing to do with “hacking” and no hacking was alleged or proven. Wikileaks does not do hacking, it does “leaks”. The clue is in the name.”

    “Stone has been convicted of saying that the Mueller nonsense is true.”

    What? Adult reporters used their mouths, and lies came out?

    “John Solomon is no longer at The Hill. Still don’t know why; did I miss something?”
    Yes, Solomon was doing reporting: the cardinal sin. The Hill can’t have that. Truth is like sunlight, melting the fanatical religion of #AntiLogos.

    …But we know who will be reported as “unbiased debunked news source” and who will be named “deranged conspiracy theorist.”

    In a nation of lies, telling the truth – ever, about anything – is a revolutionary act. And jailable.

    “Trump’s Ukraine Scandal Rooted in Fear of Biden (Hill)”

    Yes, Biden is incoherent, bleeding from the eyes, and hated by half his party who now believes Bernie is Center-right. It’s totally irrational to investigate him when he and his son raked $2M+ from Ukraine while both overthrowing it and overseeing it. We have the check stubs, plus the State Department saying it was a problem, but that’s – as the media loves to say – “Without Evidence.”

    “Russian bots are still working for him.”

    You mean the bots the NY Times already reported were on the payroll of the DNC, and the owner was banned from Facebook for his shenanigans? …But, because, executive branch, election tampering, no one went to jail. Ever. Or for CA either. You can have the Royal Spokesperson say, “Soliciting underage minors is perfectly normal” on the BBC prime-time and no one goes to jail. Jail and murder are for people who sell loose cigarettes in Staten Island.

    Continuing with lies on lies on lies on lies on lies: “Fox News poll showed him losing to Biden — by a lot.” Yes, these polls also showed him losing to Beto, who was polling 1% and lost to his own party, as well as, historically, losing to HRC by 12 points. Polls! Who can figure?!

    “Trump went ballistic” Compared to what ordinary day? Did he call NBC and tell them how to report on it, like DNC did? Did he get a man inside the network and undermine them, like Donna Brazile? Did he threaten to drone strike them like HRC did? …Not very ballistic. More like a slow hour after nap-time.

    “With an approval rating hovering in the mid-to-low 40s, that is not good news” …Aaaand Trump’s approval is where Obama’s was in his first term, and continually rising, even during impeachment. And also steadily rising among minorities, as with Kanye. Ah, but what’s the point of running down an article where every sentence is simple to discredit? There are better uses of time. Gee, Docktor, everything every reporter says on every station in every nation in the West is a lie? Yes, Grasshopper, learn quickly you do, but you have yet more to learn: Everything every PERSON in the West says is a lie.

    “Well, this is what happened in 2016. Still nothing to investigate the Bidens on?”

    And a lot of this was reported in ’15 and ’16. But nope! There is never, ever any reason to investigate any one for any thing, ever and ever, amen. So long as they’re in my special club.

    The House of Representatives is now investigating whether President Donald Trump lied to special counsel Robert Mueller”

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    Haven’t we been over this and closed it? Nope! It will never, ever be closed. Schiff’s grandchildren will be investigating Trump Jr’s grandchildren with telepathic space cars. In actuality, they want the Grand Jury info to figure out how to start their upcoming legal defense and contaminate the record/evidence so they can get an instant mistrial. What? Where?

    “Mr. Barr declared unambiguously and in plain English that …the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law.” i.e. Sedition and Seditious felonies.

    “Airbus Secures 120 Plane Order From Air Arabia (CNBC)”

    Like I said, there is essentially nothing wrong with the plane, only the law. But now the plane – which could have been easily fixed – now must all be collected, melted down, and buried at the bottom of the ocean, with a thousand tonnes of raw sewage dumped on them just ’cause we’re mad. Very environmental of them. Thanks to media oversensationalizing and misreporting. Just fix the sensor and the software with a quick pilot override: done. Then we can make all those transoceanic underwater green trains AOC was talking about.

    “FedEx CEO Challenges NYT Publisher To Public Debate After Tax Story (R.)”

    I pay proportionally more taxes than all of them combined. If you’re poor, sales taxes, property taxes, forced health insurance, registrations, monopoly fees, etc, are 50% of your income. Are they paying an essential 50% rate? Check your privilege, you people who can afford hoity-toity “brand name” hot dogs with your Kraft Mac-and-Cheese. ‘Cause more than half the country can’t. Brand name ketchups: Ah but to dream!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 18 2019 #51405
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Interesting. Certainly didn’t look like even he expected to win. And no surprise, considering the vote-rigging around here. What do I mean? Stein did the recount in only one part of one state, tell me what she found before they shut it down, post haste.

    Anyway, then what do you make of Mueller, since he would have been all over the Russian connections like fleas on a dog. Is he working for Trump? Or Putin?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 18 2019 #51396
    Dr. D
    Participant

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10310714/wales-snow-freezing-weather-winter-uk/

    Heavy, persistent snow in Wales, -7c. Should we wait until the Thames freezes over before we call it? I say wait, it’s more scientific to make absolutely sure there’s a trend.

    P.S. do they grow any food in Wales?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 18 2019 #51394
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Britain’s RussiaRussia craze continues.”

    A portion of the world is still in a psychotic, paranoid delusion. And it’s not helpful. Meanwhile, a light on the reality of things: underage rape and human trafficking being as common as cocaine, is met with a “Meh. What can you do?” A: Enforce the law? Just sayin’.

    And they can’t show Skripal anymore than they can release Assange. Skripal would tell how he wrote the Steele dossier, and Assange would say who the DNC leaker is. That is to say, both of them would utterly debunk Russia. Again. But it won’t matter. Mueller did that already and facts and reality had no effect on the madness. That’s what madness is.

    That part I understand. What I don’t understand is how they report two opposite things in the same paper, then in the same paragraph, and no one notices. It never causes remark to say “Hey! Every 30 seconds something new doesn’t make any sense. I think something may be wrong with my worldview!”

    “Hong Kong Police Storm Into University After Violent Standoff (ZH)”

    I heard, more to the point, 99% of all Hong Kong’s internet runs through the University basement. P.S.: Don’t do that.

    “Deval Patrick is candidate No. 28.”

    It’s hard not to see that this is some sort of elaborate joke I don’t get. Or I DID get, but good and hard. Joke’s on you!

    I forget who, but just yesterday, they had a sit-down panel of regular Americans, not telling them it was political. Guess what? NO ONE CARED ABOUT IMPEACHMENT. No one cared about Russia. They certainly didn’t care about Ukraine. They cared about how come they paid Washington to go up there and they were getting nothing done for the American people. And one guy was trying to get stuff done but being obstructed by every means. So if his policy is bad, imagine how much worse, how much madder people are when they’re not even trying to have a policy. But okay, election’s around the corner: good luck!

    “the biggest and most enthusiastic responses in recent years have run on furious, throw-the-bums-out themes, for the logical reason that bums by now clearly need throwing out.”

    “He says that the word “Burisma” never came up during that call,”

    That is true, we have the transcript. Vindman said he’d edit it for us, but that as it stands is accurate. They clearly meant Burisma, but didn’t say it. And why not? Ukraine was already investigating them without us. Twice.

    “Ukraine was involved with the hacked DNC server as well as the only firm allowed to look at it, Crowdstrike.”

    Rachael Maddow aside (she denied this feverishly, in a near-breakdown), this is true. Crowdstrike is a Ukrainian owner, with sharp Pro-Ukrainian, Anti-Russia bias, as already caught during the Donbass and the Georgia thing. So…why is Ukraine running the DNC servers? Doesn’t that seem a bit…hazardous…to anyone? Off-color? Like, excuse me, W.T.F.? …And worse, apparently the servers the FBI didn’t see and can’t see…the ONLY evidence of Russian hacking at all, are BEING HELD IN UKRAINE. That is, unsafely, but specifically outside the jurisdiction of the U.S.

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    …Except when we do it.

    So you think someone could look into wtf is going on here? Nope. Asking questions is impeachable, imprisonable offense. Ask the many, many people who are in jail for asking or publishing questions. Your Heil Hitler is not QUITE high and sharp enough, comrade.

    “That switch to “bribery” gave it away. Is “resignation” another term they checked with a focus group?!”

    Someone pointed out the bigger problem with changing horses: So what they’re saying to the American people is, “We don’t really have a crime, we just need to pick something that will remove him. So in this court, if one charge starts not panning out, like extortion we just change the charge mid-stream, to bribery.” Yeah, we know. But that says everyone in America you have reason, no case, just Orange Man is the most Badder Man. As is this the same s—t every ordinary American puts up with such lying, disingenuine power-abusive railroading every day, we have a pre-set reaction to such things, and it’s not a good one.

    I mean, what the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did

    Granted, IF their accusation were true, this statement would be honest. So props to putting it this way. However, if she’s talking about phone-tapping opposition candidates, or using Ukraine to dig up and planting dirt on the opposition, you already beat Trump to it. For years with a few dozen cohorts. Now is it a crime or isn’t it? …And that’s why Cheeto trapped you into THIS phone call, THIS dialogue, with THIS particular nation.

    The whistle was blown, the whistle was blown, and that was blown long before we heard about it,” Pelosi said.

    I’m guessing she doesn’t mean Clinton, the CA primary-rigging, the two-talk $500k speeches with Sachs, or the 30,000 emails a certain whistleblower made (even more) apparent to the voter. Wouldn’t want to attack or intimidate THAT whistleblower. Must keep him very, very safe with drone strikes and holding him incommunicado without lawyers. Oh, and the whistleblower who wants to stop you Congress-guys and Dukes of York from raping anyone you see with free license? Get her too.

    So what was that about Droit du seigneur and human slavery we had back in the day? You know, how we’re so much more civilized now? When YOU’RE the guys who approved it and re-opened the slave market in Tripoli, spare me. And you’re going to pull down statues and criticize Jefferson? He’s dead, but you’re alive and can be arrested and imprisoned, which is more relevant right now?

    “was not lost on Ambassador Sondland what happened to” Trump associates Roger Stone and Michael Cohen “for lying to Congress.””

    Didn’t Ambassador Yovanovitch already lie to Congress, twice? Nah, can’t be. She’s on our side, so whatever she says is without flaw. Meanwhile if it’s HIS side, and a guy lies to Congress, they just send him to jail and his side nods their heads and lets it happen. …Because they should. So which is the good side, then? Am I the baddie here?

    Fed Fears Next Crash Fatal – John Rubino (USAW)”

    They’re bailing out something feverishly. They’ve already turned their $130B/day to permanent long-term, and passed the $700B bailout mark. No one notices. ‘Til they do.

    Putin says the US$ is going down right now. No Saudi oil = no Saudis = no Petrodollar = no Fed. They can stall and thrash all they want but they’re going to get a new financial system that’s honest. And there’s NOTHING they hate more than honesty, because as idiot-sons-paid-into-Yale until Yale is dumber than Des Moines Community College, they couldn’t compete for 60 seconds without bribery, dishonesty, market-rigging, and insider trading. That’s the secret of the elites, and why all you need to do is allow competition. They’re so dumb and useless their fortunes will be devoured by small businessmen in a single generation. It take the Fed and free insider loans in the hundred-billions per DAY to prevent that.

    But the new and honest financial system will leave us with a much worse problem: objective reality. That is, what goods are mined, moved, created, and used. That’s also our strength, but when you’ve burned down each of those facilities and left them in ashes for 60 years, it’s a bad hangover.

    “the primary economic role of government—is to guarantee price stability.”

    Note it’s not to enforce contract law, indict corporations for bodily harm, or even break monopolies or issue corporate licenses only for the common good. Nope. This is what they think government is for. Newsflash: government has no business in the currency and is a detriment to it. Therefore, it has no mandate in inflation. Or GDP, or unemployment for that matter. If they did their ONE JOB, and enforced the law, those things would take care of themselves. But in #Oppositeland, they do everything BUT that job. …Like everyone else, doing every action, minding everyone else’s business but their own.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 17 2019 #51382
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Great article, in National Review of all things:

    “The government’s policy community has gotten so political, it has forgotten that its mission is to implement the president’s policies, not undermine them. … their job is to try to guide the president to good policy, not usurp his role. The president’s decisions carry the day. Bureaucrats are not free to substitute their judgments for the president’s. If they can’t accept that, the honorable thing is to resign, à la Bolton and Mattis. Remaining in place to countermand the elected chief executive is not an option.”

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/trump-vs-the-policy-community/

    This from a policy official who likewise believes (or says) Trump’s policy IS misguided. Congratulations, people have the right to disagree! But not to not do your job. You’re still a voter, that’s your outlet.

    “We’ve moved way beyond that, though. Democrats are now scheming with fellow progressives in the policy community to achieve their three-year longing to impeach President Trump. …The Left will tell you it’s not — it’s driven by lawlessness. But the Left treats all disagreement with its policy preferences as lawlessness. And when it can’t pull that off, it slanders the dissenters as outlaws. That’s how, with a Supreme Court slot on the line, a widely admired jurist with a peerless record of mentoring his law clerks, mostly women, into high professional achievements somehow becomes a serial rapist.”

    Yeah, that was pretty bad. God forbid people with those morals and tactics get anywhere near power. A senseless buffoon looks positively jolly in comparison.

    Oh, and if you have policy differences, vote him out. It’s right around the corner, the easiest path. …Which also tells us impeachment is just everyday election tampering, as now admitted (implied) by AOC.

    “And so when people come in and get involved in issues and they’re not of that process”

    “People” like the President, your boss? Gosh I hate it when they get involved. Why don’t they just give speeches, shake hands, and boff interns? Why they gotta be Presidenting all the time? Then we gotta have the CIA lie to them about what’s happening so they’ll do what we say. What happens then? He just IGNORES the meetings and doesn’t hear the lies! Da nerve of this guy! Going off listening to military intel instead. Why I never.

    “Prince Andrew Denies Sex With 17 Year Old, Says He Was At Pizza Express (Ind.)”

    So as with Trudeau being in blackface so many times he doesn’t remember, Andy doesn’t remember THAT underage girl specifically, since there’ve been so many underage girls they all run together. And he “let the team down” he says. It’s okay Andrew: we forgive you. And in light of your important position, you can only serve 2-5 in Belmarsh next to Assange, and spend only the first year in solitary. Everyone else would serve 5-10 and be killed in suspicious circumstances, so that’s how much we care.

    Ah, but don’t we know it will never happen? Justice, even delayed and mild, will never, EVER be served.

    “Some people are suggesting the Saudis badly need the cash.”

    The Saudis are essentially bankrupt, foreseen 20 years ago with Gahwar. And Putin just said the U.S. Dollar is about to fail. …Because it’s the Petro dollar. Backed by Saudi oil. No oil = no dollar. And while I’ll do that just because it’s the right thing, I think almost everyone else will chase me down the street and lynch me if I did. …And so that goes to how we have troops there, or refuel Yemen, etc. This. No arms = no Saudi Arabia = no dollar = no free money to bribe, rig, and overthrow Bolivia. And overthrow me, the voter, with banks and secret tribunals.

    “Hong Kong Protesters Hurl PETROL BOMBS, Shoot ARROWS At Police (RT)”

    Not exactly Kumbaya, “we will overcome”, is it? Ah well, no surprise. And China shows great restraint in doing what they do best: waiting them out. And us, by the way. Many years ago, they asked what China thought of western democracy. The answer? “It’s too soon to tell.”

    Speaking of:

    Tensions Run High During Yellow Vests Protests (RT)”

    I’d ask if they’re shooting their eyes out, but they don’t report the truth anyway, so…

    Chile’s most important political parties agreed Friday to call for a new constitution”

    But is it really a Constitution if you just replace it all the time, though? Isn’t it more like just Parliament, or club rules? Or like a menu?

    And don’t worry about the cost of war. We won’t pay them. …Well, not in cash anyway. I’ve been paying all my life already.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 16 2019 #51352
    Dr. D
    Participant

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    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 16 2019 #51351
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Same old same old. Marching on forever.

    The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it.”

    This from a guy who vowed to “fundamentally change America as we know it.” Guess what? Just like now, that’s a thing a lot of Americans opposed.

    He also said, ““The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican.”

    And he’s right. Because we have a one-party system, the party of the Deep, Steady State, OF the insiders, AGAINST the people. Just like everywhere else: surprise!

    “Obama Left An Ambassador to Die (PJMedia)”

    Everyone can set policy but him…as long as that is the Deep State policy. Everyone can hire and fire ambassadors they want…as long as they are the employees the Deep State wants and will start 15 new wars and kill 6M people…including 60,000 each year at home. So long as you obey us slavishly and without hesitation, you’re in charge. …For those too dumb to know what “being in charge” really means. Hint: it means firing people ’cause they look at you funny. If you can’t do that, THEY’RE in charge, slack off, and run roughshod.

    And just as Schiff thinks he’s the whole Senate now, he’s also the executive branch, deciding who our ambassadors, who our IG, who our Justice Dept employees –oh, and who the President– should be. …And he STILL has less overreach than the UK and EU courts.

    When Did Ukraine Become a ‘Critical Ally’? (Buchanan)”

    When? In 1970 under Kissinger and Brzezinski. They were proud of it. That’s why we’ve funded Russian hated and armed the literal, historical Nazis – the Banderites – there.

    Ah, but although we haven’t got Bush, Cheney, and Blair in jail, at least Brzezinski got to write that his Ukraine plan was a total s—t-show and a complete fail, just like the other works of his life. But he got us to the edge of nuclear annihilation and to kill a couple million people trying, so that’s a win!

    Not until Trump became president did lethal aid begin flowing to Ukraine, including Javelin anti-tank missiles.

    Nope. Never happened. He’s a Putin Puppet don’t ya know, not the guy who left all treaties and dangerously escalated the arms race with Russia, lowering the threshold for nuclear exchange. …But really: we found out in Yemen that the Javelin missiles are about as useful as spitballs, just like our Abrams tanks. We needed to offload that obsolete garbage harmlessly on someone. Russia would roll over Ukraine before you could finish watching “Game of Thrones” and it isn’t the Javelins stopping them. “Q: What does Russia call the German army? A: A speed bump.” Well they have 2M men in service, it’s not really a joke.

    …Don’t know why he bothers, anyway. If he started nuking Russia, it wouldn’t change the reporting. We’re a Reality-Free zone! #AntiLogos fanatics, dying by the 60,000s for our religion!

    Arbuthnot Out as Assange’s Judge, Says Wikileaks Lawyer Jen Robinson (CN)”

    So if they’re removing Arbuthnot, they’re reversing all the decisions she made, right? No?

    And what if, I dunno, spitballing here, someone were to mishandle and release 30,000 classified emails by, I dunno, keeping then on an unsecured server in her basement so China could hack them and pay her? Would that be a sort of similar crime deserving of 8 years of solitary? Or…I’m sorry, I lose track here: what’s the difference again except that in the U.S. publishers have 1st Amendment rights and government employees cannot mishandle government records?

    “Justice for me but not for thee”

    “The Australian government has not, as far as I am aware, raised any objection to the treatment of Julian Assange”

    Raised any objection? And here I thought they applauded the murder of their citizens. (And ours, btw, see Five Eyes). And their own citizens cheer! Ooh, ooh, me next! Me next!

    in reply to: The Shallow State #51350
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Vermeer. I am impressed.

    Followed the top level report on Stone, and everything looks in order. The accusations are real, and the proof is evident: either they have it or they don’t. Looks like they had it.

    Not sure what he was thinking, since talking to Wikileaks isn’t a crime. Talking to the campaign isn’t a crime. Talking to Congress isn’t a crime. Yet he felt the need to lie about it all, apparently to everyone, as a first reaction and way of life. As a K-Street dirty trickster, they’d probably pull his card and banish him from D.C. if he DIDN’T lie about everything always, which only shows the double standard.

    Generally, taking money from Ukraine, channeling it, hiding it from your taxes, lying about why you got it, it’s just a way of life, like the lake house. Unless you’re Manafort. Oh wait, he did that in ‘14. It was still a way of life then, everyone approved, it wasn’t until ‘17 they retroactively made it a crime a cared about it. Lying to Congress, I don’t know, about “weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-qeada” that cost us $100T and killed maybe 6M people? I see no crime here, not even 30 days. Clapper who says they have never spied on any American person? Gosh, he lied to Congress! Heavens. And he’s still walking around, eating 5-star meals, paid for by being a cooing expert on CNN. Comey lied to Justice Department about there not being an investigation, about leaking, etc, along with McCabe, and whaddya know? No crime! It’s only when you’re on ONE side, only one, that laws exist for you.

    See, I wouldn’t know that, because they always exist for me. Put the wrong shigles on your house: go to court! Pay the fine or go to jail! Do NOT lie to a policeman, oh nevermind, he’ll purjure himself and write you a ticket anyway, then stand if from of the judge, his brother-in-law and golfing partner, and perjure himself again. For $100 dollars. And if you fight he WILL commit a crime, write false tickets, threaten witnesses and WILL get you in jail somehow to make his point. But not for them.

    “A more wretch hive of scum and villainy you will never see.”

    So they only reserve that sort of thing for us. …And for him. Anyone he’s talked to, anyone he’s met. And since they’re all dirty criminals, there’s endless (backward) leverage to use on them, should they make the ill-advised attempt to represent the American people not the Deep, Steady State, that is to say the Status Quo, the CFR and Atlantic Council, the Soros’ of the world, who as Kunstler pointed out, funded the whole thing and the murders of some 30,000 people for his amusement.

    Wouldn’t want to stop that and go home! Wouldn’t want to spend that $100T on water for Flint!

    So I wonder, did they hope Mr. T would obstruct and tamper and pardon Stone? A play on Trump’s adherence to “loyalty”, since their other plans didn’t work? No way to know. But since he seems to have done the crime, there we are, justice served, which is the sharp disadvantage the good guys have: they are forbidden the tactics of the bad guys. And yet they prevail.

    No, they can’t get him out with this. Nor will Trump “clean things up” more than casually, extending the collapse, making it slower. If Americans want it cleaned up, they will have to clean their hearts. So just as said, they will allow him, promote him, demand him, to make every mistake, especially and exclusively war, corporate power, spying, and to destroy the middle class, and obstruct, or as we see, impeach him, should he make the mildest attempt to stop war, reign in the spying, and give the middle class their (tax) money back. So when you look back it will look like all the other Presidents, because it IS all the other presidents, who to greater or lesser degreee tried the same thing against the Deep State, enemies of the people. But if the people love it so much they join in the attacks to be pro-war, pro CIA, pro-spying on themselves, who am I to say?

    in reply to: Hearsay, Your Honor! #51332
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “If everyone’s thinking the same, nobody’s thinking.”

    Interesting but no. You know I criticize my country’s failure to adhere to our espoused and legal values every day, but I don’t think you’re getting a good news view from Sweden. And yes, Sweden, so of course it’s expected you’re further left than our leftmost party. America is notorious for conservative values of self-reliance and independence, despite 100 years of relentless attacks.

    And like all good propaganda, it’s not that what you’re hearing isn’t “true”, it’s that the events shown are tiny outliers they suddenly shine a spotlight on and make appear to be pan-national earthquakes, when it’s usually just some guy having a bad day. Like there are what? 12? 20? police on black shootings a year? You’re also more likely to be shot BY a black officer than a white one. They sure tell a story and keep it in the news, though, this “truth.”

    Sure Trump might be corrupt, but they’re forgetting it’s the JOB of all national leaders to arm-twist other national leaders to get their cooperation with policy. If not, we need to impeach every President since Wilson? Teddy? Taft? T. Jefferson? As an American, I know you need to investigate them all, I don’t care. However, we just DID investigate Mr. Trump, for two years, with an unlimited budget, by a hostile force, and found nothing. So fair’s fair: now we investigate Mr. Biden, for what seems to be pretty suspicious things, like the bank receipt of $2M from a place you’re overseeing, through a company run by the CIA. So? He might be innocent, let’s find out! But they only want to investigate Trump. It’s my side right or wrong. My little angel would never do anything. Conservatives put up with Obama and Mueller and didn’t like it much. But when they win an election, suddenly nothing can be put up with, nothing is allowed, everything is illegal and obstructed. That’s not democracy and will indeed lead to a police state because one side or the other will eventually turn to militarism to get things done. Now despite all press, that’s NOT happening. They are still askingbegging Congress for immigration reform, obeying judges, wrangling bureaucracies, finding other paths (like having Mexico guard our border, literally the only legal job of the $700B U.S. Army), INSTEAD of acting ANYTHING like a proposed dictator, rolling out the feds and arresting everyone, which thanks to 100-150 years of erosion, and said Patriot Act, the President now arguably has the legal precedent to do. And, um, why not? He has motive, means, opportunity. Is being attacked hourly. Supposedly is a dictator with a big ego and thin skin. Can anyone propose a theory on how a dictator does everything for three years but dictate?

    But: no one cares. Maybe they need to see a real dictator act in their lives before they can grok the difference between that, and bashing and obstructing the President every day, making $200,000 doing it, and camping out in front of his house to harass him and call him names on his front sidewalk under the 1A(yes, this is going on), and he shrugs and does nothing. Then lobbys for more free speech and gun rights.

    At the same time, although we remain in a police state since W.J. Clinton burned christian children alive at Waco, it’s not exactly a fascist goal to have MORE free speech, LESS book burning online censorship, MORE guns in the hands of the people, black, brown, gay, Asian, left, demand MORE transparency, ask for more declassifications, REMOVE yourself from foreign wars, REDUCE the merger of corporations and state, and REVERSE expansionism. Pretty sure not only have these been said, you can point to places where they were accomplished. The point being, yes Google and Facebook plan and are executing that police state, and are working feverishly with China to accomplish it– they’re CIA, what would you expect? — but the government (bureaucracy), although resisting every elected official like a stuck-up mule, is slowly reversing the police state here. Not much comfort, but a little.

    And we are DEFINITELY not “further militarizing the police and sending it to terrorize people of color” although the media will tell you so, just like they say Russia is running everything in the United States, and indeed the world, including bird-naming contests in New Zealand. RussiaRussiaRussia. I live here, and should they do that, I will resist that too.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 15 2019 #51331
    Dr. D
    Participant

    So Picasso really likes pickles?

    “Bribery?” Sure, why not? They’re lousy, lousy lawyers, and have no ear for the American people since that’s been the essence of their case all along. Unfortunately, they think they’re failing because Americans are too dumb to know what “quid” means. Nope. They understood exactly what it means, they just don’t believe you, or rather everyone had already chosen a side.

    Couple problems: the law was written so the President would be the BRIBEE, taking money. Not the BRIBER, where we give foreign aid to every nation and aggressive totalitarian dictator on earth. If so, we need to get impeaching Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush immediately. And probably back to President Polk. Ah, but who cares, amirite? Sounds cool. Anyway, it’s no change in their case and changes no minds.

    BTW, if I were to, say, go on camera saying I withheld $1B in aid to stop and investigation, AFTER taking $2M in funds wired to my bank account, would THAT be bribery? Should it be investigated someday, or is it impeachable to ask? Discuss.

    Oh, and if you “Bribed” someone, but got nothing, not even a meeting, then gave them the money anyway, would it still be “bribery”? I feel like you’re reaching now, and maybe that’s because it’s a trap.

    “Adam Schiff Will Be Called as Witness in Senate Impeachment Trial: Graham (ET)”

    Although the trial on the Senate would be best, I don’t think they can call a vote BECAUSE they would all be on trial and subpoenaed, under oath, then hung for sedition. It’s just garden-variety election tampering. Tampering? Maybe the DNC works for the Russians! RussiaRussiaRussia. If they DON’T impeach though, Trump will arrest them for the same thing, but have the trials one-by-one. That’s why there must always be a Russia-Impeachment, forever and ever, until we are all dead.

    “Fox Prime Time Stars Tell Trump Impeachment Hearings Disaster For Dems (CNN)”

    CNN, just like Fox, is in an echo chamber. However, one difference: while the Left never speaks to, reads, and indeed outlaws all conversations with the Right, the Right has not choice BUT to hear and know everything the Left thinks, because 100% of the news is Left. And increasingly on Fox too, btw. So…would you like to hire a general who only knows HIS side, his troops, his strategy, or one that knows all himself but the enemy too? Choose wisely.

    P.S. it’s pretty easy to prove there are no journalists but only “media activists” and using only their own words because they’re quite proud of it. Follow any Twitter account for 10 minutes and tell me what you think.

    “ Public Figures: Antisemitism Means We Can’t Vote For Labour Under Corbyn (G.)”

    Amazing. They similarly say, it’s illegal to say it when an Irishman has a drink. It would be using “racist tropes.” …But only when your side does it. When you trope conservatives or the rural poor, it’s f’n hilarious, true, and totally deserved.

    So as above, do you want a general who can discuss Poles charging into certain death or Frenchmen running away, or one who — when that should actually, occasionally happen– refuses, can’t tell you, won’t be honest, and most of the time then reports the OPPOSITE to save someone’s feelings somewhere?

    Because, believe it or not, Jewish men actually HAVE touched money, Irishmen HAVE tasted whiskey, and some Georgians HAVE been to church. But in #Oppositeland, the only safe speech is to deny all these truths.

    “A website obsessed with blaming Russia for everything – using Google Earth to support its airtight theories – has been infiltrated by Russian agents,”

    RussiaRussiaRussia. They’re under my bed. Controlling my mind. Can’t you see them? That’s why I have outsmart them, fool them, and wear this shiny hat.

    Ah, but it’s hopeless: since they’re everywhere, and every one you meet is already a Russian, and they’re already controlling New Zealand bird-name contests, you can never escape. Admit it: Russia is running the whole world! And space too! You, YOU are probably also a Russian! And you don’t even know it.
    Rooskie

    William Nordhaus was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics”

    Wow, he may be even dumber than all the other Nobel Prize winners, but it’s a high bar. Estimate margin of error to the decimal point? Let me see your data so I can flush it down the toilet and save the world a lot more waste of critical resources pretending we know things we don’t. You economists haven’t got anything right in 100 years, yet killed 1 million people with bad policy in that time. +/- 1M deaths margin of error.

    BTW, may not have to worry since we lost 4 weeks in the start of the crop season, lost 8 weeks to snow at the end of the season, and they’re right, that won’t equal 3% of GDP: It will equal your kids having no food. 3 feet of heavy, persistent snow throughout the world’s only grain export belt is also not global warming. Plan accordingly.

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